There are many faculty members, staff and students at UBC who are from or work in the Himalayan region. At present, our Steering Committee includes:
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory
Himalaya Program Curricula Development Coordinator
Email: katherine.hacker@ubc.ca
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Associate Professor, Linguistic Anthropology
Himalaya Program Advisor
Email: mark.turin@ubc.ca
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Assistant Professor, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program, UBC
Assistant Professor, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, UBC
Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, UBC
Email: pasang.sherpa@ubc.ca
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Associate Professor, Socio-Cultural Anthropology
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs/Institute of Asian Research
Himalaya Program Research & Outreach Coordinator
Email: sara.shneiderman@ubc.ca
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Associate Professor, Institute of Asian Research
Canada Research Chair in Religion and Contemporary Society in Asia
Himalaya Program Speaker Series & Language Program Coordinator
Himalaya Program Tibetan Community Liaison
Email: tshakya@mail.ubc.ca