Phurwa Gurung
Doctoral candidate Phurwa Gurung was awarded a National Geographic Society Committeefor Research and Exploration grant to work together with local Dolpopa scholars to document endangered oralliterature in Dolpo, northwest Nepal.National
Phurwa Gurung was awarded a Wenner Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for hisdissertation project, “Reordering highland territories: State-building, indigeneity and multispeciesworldmaking in the Himalaya.” It will
A high-altitude seasonal encampment for caterpillar fungus harvest in Dolpo, Nepal. Phurwa D Gurung, PhD Candidate in Geography, received the competitive Social Science Research Council's InternationalDissertation Research
Phurwa Gurunghas been awarded the highly competitive Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) fellowship for 2022, funded by the Mellon Foundation. Phurwa wasselected from a total of 870 applicants from graduate
We are pleased to announce Phurwa Gurung's student paper received anawardfor hispaper published in Geoforum in 2021. Phurwa will receive a1000 euro award, which is intended to support conference
TheDor Bahadur Bista Prizehonors the life, career, and service of Dor Bahadur Bista, Nepal’s first anthropologist and former Honorary President of the ANHS predecessor organization, the Nepal Studies Association (NSA). The purpose of the
Phurwa Gurung has a new article titled "Challenging Infrastructural Orthodoxies: Political and Economic Geographies of a Himalayan Road" published by Geoforum Journal.HighlightsRoad increases vulnerability to food insecurity in