I am a social anthropologist and carried out long-term ethnographic and historical research among the upland and tribal Nagas in India’s generally lesser known Northeastern Region, writing about insurgency, violence, vernacular politics, capitalism, resource-extraction, and social history. My main research area and focus today are environmental humanities, climate change, water, and human-animal-plant entanglements in Bhutan, and Highland Asia more widely.
I hold an MPhil (Distinction) in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford, and later completed a PhD in Anthropology from the North-Eastern Hill University in Shillong (India). Before joining Royal Thimphu College (Bhutan) as a lecturer I taught for two years at Sikkim Central University, where I was asked to establish the Anthropology Department, and was a visiting fellow (2014-2015) at Eberhard Karls University on a “Teaching for Excellence” award granted by the German Research Foundation. I currently also serve as the Chair of the Himalayan Centre for Environmental Humanities, Thimphu.
Email- jjp.wouters@gmail.com