Phurwa Gurung
- Doctoral candidate Phurwa Gurung was awarded a National Geographic Society Committee听for Research and Exploration grant to work together with local Dolpopa scholars to document endangered oral听literature in Dolpo, northwest Nepal.National
- Phurwa Gurung was awarded a Wenner Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for his听dissertation project, 鈥淩eordering highland territories: State-building, indigeneity and multispecies听worldmaking in the Himalaya.鈥 听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 International听Dissertation Research
- Phurwa Gurung听has been awarded the highly competitive Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) fellowship for 2022, funded by the Mellon Foundation. Phurwa was听selected from a total of 870 applicants from graduate
- We are pleased to announce Phurwa Gurung's student paper received an听award听for his听paper published in Geoforum in 2021. Phurwa will receive a听1000 euro award, which is intended to support conference
- The听Dor Bahadur Bista Prize听honors the life, career, and service of Dor Bahadur Bista, Nepal鈥檚 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