Kabir Mansingh Heimsath
Assistant Professor with Term of Anthropology and Asian Studies
JR Howard 371, MSC: 60
Office Hours:
Tues/Thurs 1-2pm (or by appointment)
Specialty
Tibet and Himalayan studies; tourism; cities and bodies; visual anthropology; space/place theory; borderlandsAcademic Credentials
DPhil 2011, MSc 2005 University of Oxford. MA 1996 University of Washington. BA 1992 University of California.
Teaching
Visual anthropology
Space/Place Theory
Borderlands
Tourism
Cities and Bodies
Tibet and Himalayan studies
Research
- anthropology and development
- infrastructure and tourism in the Nepal Himalaya
- tourism in Tibet
- contemporary Tibetan art
- urban space in Lhasa, Tibet
- Tibetan Buddhism in practice