Dr. Mark Turin

Mark Turin is an anthropologist and linguist, and is a well-known expert on the cultures of the Himalaya. He has worked closely with many communities and organisations in Nepal and Sikkim, and his publications on Himalayan languages and cultural diversity have been influential in academic and policy circles. After several years with the Himalayan Languages Project at Leiden University, he co-founded Digital Himalaya, a project devoted to preserving and disseminating film, image and documents from the region through the internet. He now directs the World Oral Literature Project, based at Cambridge University.