Team
People
Christiane Brosius
Principal Investigator
Prof. Dr. Christiane Brosius is professor of visual and media anthropology at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies in Heidelberg, Germany.
Sabin ninglekhu
Principal Investigator
Dr. Sabin Ninglekhu is a geographer and a Senior Researcher based at Social Science Baha, Kathmandu.
Stefanie Lotter
Principal Investigator
Dr. Stefanie Lotter is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, University of London.
pooja kalita
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Pooja Kalita received her PhD from the Department of Sociology, South Asian University (New Delhi). Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, material culture, food, visuality, and placemaking.
Sasanka Perera
Principal Investigator
Dr. Sasanka Perera is Professor of Sociology, Dean of Social Sciences and former Vice President at South Asian University, New Delhi.
Monalisa Maharjan
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Monalisa Maharjan holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Évora, which focused on the indigenous practice of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. Her reserach for HaP looks at heritage activism and contestations centered around water architecture and infrastructures.
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Monica Mottin
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Monica Mottin is a Social Anthropologist and Research Fellow at the HCTS. Her project within Heritage as Placemaking studies how heritage performances make places in the Janakpur region and Kathmandu Valley.
Binita Magaiya
Research Assistant
Binita Magaiya is an architect specializing in the conservation of Monuments and Heritage structures. She completed her master’s from KU Leuven with a degree in Conservation of Monuments and Sites.
Emily hyatt
Project Coordinator
Emily Hyatt is the coordinator of the Heritage as Placemaking, for which she handles administration and cross-partner transfers of funding. She recently completed her MA in Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University.
Emiline Smith
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Emiline Smith is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Glasgow’s School of Social and Political Sciences. Her work within HaP looks at the illegal trafficking of cultural and natural resources from the Dolpa region.
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Julia Shrestha
Research Data Manager
Julia Shrestha is the project’s research data manager. She holds a BA in South Asian Studies and Anthropology and an MA in South Asian Studies, both from the University of Heidelberg.
Ina Schmidbauer
Student Assistant
Ina Schmidbauer is a research assistant for Heritage as Placemaking. They hold a BA in Anthropology from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and are currently finishing an MA from the University of Heidelberg in the program ‘Development, Environment, Society and History of South Asia’ (MA South Asian Studies)