Kabir Mansingh Heimsath
Assistant Professor with Term of Anthropology, Director of Asian Studies
JR Howard 371, MSC: 60
Office Hours:
Mon/Wed 2-3pm drop in (email for appointment at other times)
Specialty
Tibet and Himalayan studies; space/place and visual theory; borderlands; experiential learningAcademic Credentials
DPhil 2011 Social Cultural Anthropology & MSc 2005 Visual Anthropology at University of Oxford
MA 1996 Religious Studies at University of Washington
BA 1991 Religious Studies at University of California, Berkeley
Teaching
Visual anthropology
Space, Place and Landscape
Borderlands
Tourism in Asia
Religion and Modernity
Cyborg Anthropology
Ethnographic Methods
Research
- Infrastructure and Tourism in the Himalaya
- Development Studies
- Contemporary Art in Tibet
- Urban Studies
- Contemporary Buddhist Practice