Mark Turin

Mark Turin was trained in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge after which he spent a year cataloguing Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf's ethnographic films. Then he joined the Himalayan Languages Project at Leiden University, the Netherlands, to write a grammar of Thangmi, a hitherto undescribed Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal. His doctoral dissertation offers an analysis of the grammar of the Thangmi language supported by glossed texts and a comprehensive lexicon of the two main dialects. Click here to see his publications.

Mark currently directs the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project, and is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia.