Dr. Mark Turin
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts
Research Themes: Language, Sustainability and Transnationalism
Director, Digital Himalaya Project
Director, World Oral Literature Project
Mark Turin (PhD, Linguistics, Leiden University, 2006) is an anthropologist, linguist and radio presenter. At the University of British Columbia, Mark served as Chair of the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program, Acting Co-Director of the University’s new Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, and is an Associate Professor. Before joining UBC, Mark was an Associate Research Scientist with the South Asian Studies Council at Yale University, and the Founding Program Director of the Yale Himalaya Initiative. He continues to hold an appointment as Visiting Associate Professor at the Yale School Forestry & Environmental Studies. Prior to Yale, Mark worked as a Research Associate at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. At UBC, Mark is an Associate Member of the Department of Asian Studies and an Affiliate Member of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.
Research Interests
Ethnolinguistics, language endangerment, visual anthropology, digital archives and fieldwork methodology
