THE HIGHLAND FellowsHIP
The Highland Fellowship seeks to attract world-class scholars actively engaged in both research and teaching in conjunction with partner institutions and granting agencies. Often based in staff positions in other universities around the world they engage in both short and long term research projects in South and Southeast Asia, and often work closely with postgraduate and early career researchers at the Institute in collecting, processing and publishing data and findings. Fellows may spend several weeks to several months engaged in fieldwork, and organise as well as present their ongoing work in the regular calendar of seminars, meetings and activities organised by the Highland Institute. Time permitting they engage in intensive or term-length modular teaching at primarily the postgraduate and early career research levels, and occasionally conduct research training workshops in local partner colleges and universities.
Jonathon Keats
Jonathon Keats is an artist, writer and experimental philosopher whose participatory thought experiments adapt methods from the sciences and the humanities to explore societal conditions and planetary futures.
Dharamsingh Teron
Dharamsing Teron is an independent researcher (graduated in History from Diphu Government College, Gauhati University) from Diphu, Karbi Anglong.
Edward Moon-Little
Dr Edward Moon-Little is an anthropologist with a lifelong fascination with museums. He has assisted in the curating of various exhibitions in Northeast India and on Northeast India's cultural history.
Don Duprez
Don Duprez holds a PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, and holds an MA in Anthropology from California.
Christian Poske
Dr Christian Poske is an ethnomusicologist whose research interests include the performing arts of eastern and north-eastern India and Bangladesh, music and conflict, ecomusicology, oral history, and community engagement with archival recordings.
Aditya Kiran Kakati
Aditya is a doctorate in International History and (with Minor in Anthropology and Sociology), from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (IHEID).
Margaret Lyngdoh
Margaret Lyngdoh is pursuing a Post Doctorate at The Highland Institute under the supervision of Professor Arkotong Longkumer.
Rhelo Kenye
Rhelo Kenye submitted his PhD thesis at the Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.
Senganglu Thaimei
Senganglu Thaimei is an Associate Professor of English in Delhi University, and currently a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow.
Roderick Wijunamai
Roderick Wijunamai is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology, Cornell University.
Lester LaCombe
Lester is an independent researcher and entrepreneur residing in Maine, United States whose current studies are focused on underrepresented pathogens and historical approaches to combating their resulting diseases.
Bertrand Lefebvre
Bertrand Lefebvre holds a PhD in geography from the University of Rouen, 2011.
Les Joynes
Dr Les Joynes (US) is a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar on South Asian Cultures and an editor for ProjectAnywhere in Australia). He explores how art, oral traditions, and community index South Asian identities.
Suryasikha Pathak
Suryasikha Pathak is a faculty in the Centre for Tribal Studies, Assam University, Diphu Campus, KarbiAnglong.
Nigel Shakespear
Nigel Shakespear is a writer, editor and
former soldier with a higher educational background in anthropology, history
and development management.
A. Sentiyula
A. Sentiyula is currently the Head of Department of English, Dimapur Government College, Dimapur. She holds a PhD from Nagaland University.
Tiatoshi Jamir
Dr Tiatoshi Jamir is Professor of Archaeology in the Department of History & Archaeology, Nagaland University, Kohima Campus. His primary interest includes Early Holocene to Late Holocene prehistory of NE India, hunter-gatherer archaeology, and community-based Indigenous archaeology.
Wayne Talbot
Wayne, an environmental science graduate, is experienced in the creation of mass participation projects involving partnerships between academic, commercial and voluntary organisations at international, national, and local levels. He holds an MPhil, obtained through research into education programme evaluation.
Bisakha Goswami
Dr Bisakha Goswami is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, where she has taught since 2012, and Founder Secretary of Muktabodha, a centre for Indological studies and research.
Kadiguang Panmei
Kadiguang Panmei is a researcher and musician studying the culture of northeast India and its people through various lenses, including culinary anthropology, migration, geopolitics, and the arts.
Akumjung Pongen
Akumjung Pongen is currently pursuing his postgraduate studies in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
Ketoukhrieü
Ketoukhrieü (Ph.D.) is currently working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Kohima College, Kohima under Nagaland University, Nagaland.
Alison Betts
I specialise in the archaeology of cultural contact across Asia from prehistory to early antiquity. Key aspects of my work include nomadic peoples, hunting traps, early Zoroastrianism and dispersal of early plant domesticates.
Anna Notsu
Anna Notsu is a junior lecturer in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University in The Netherlands. Her upcoming research concerns regenerative practices and land usage in North East India.
Jelle J P Wouters
Jelle J P Wouters is the Chair of the Himalayan Centre for Environmental Humanities at Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan. He holds an MPhil (Distinction) in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Anthropology from the North-Eastern Hill University in Shillong, India.
Ruokuonuo Rose Yhome
Currently on a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Scholarship at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ruokuonuo Rose obtained her Ph.D in Archaeology from the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune
Meera Baindur
Meera Baindur is an environmental philosopher, educator, and researcher at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru Campus. Her work spans different aspects of Environmental Humanities, including nature and environment in Indian philosophical and cultural traditions, cultural geography, and eco-pedagogies.