Dharitri Narzary

I have been teaching history at the School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), since 2011. Prior to joining AUD I was working as researcher for the Japanese newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, at its India bureau office in New Delhi, and at the same time working to complete my PhD on the history of Ainu education …

Chayan Vaddhanaphuti

Chayan Vaddhanaphuti received his BA from Chulalongkorn University, MPA from National Institute of Development Administration, MA in Anthropology from Stanford University and PhD in International Development Education with concentration in Anthropology from the same university.  He received the Honorary Doctorate in Social Anthropology from Goteborg University, Sweden, in 2004. His main interests include development studies, …

Chandni Ananth

I joined college for a Bachelor's degree in Sociology with every intention of staying in the field, but found myself on a different path when I completed my course. For three years, I worked as an editorial assistant at a literary publishing house in Calcutta which specialized in translated literature. I learnt how to edit, …

Erik de Maaker

Erik de Maaker (PhD, Leiden) is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University in the Netherlands. He studied anthropology in Amsterdam and Leiden and wrote a PhD dissertation that takes changing religious practices among the Garo as a starting point for an analysis of social and …

Liling Huang

I am an associate professor at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University, as well as the former director of a Taiwan-based NGO called the Organization of Urban Re-s. I enjoy working with students and community organizers, but sometime also suffer from my approach, as it is always a process of negotiating, …

Mesha Murali

After graduating from Delhi University with an undergraduate degree in Sociology, I went on to pursue a post-graduate diploma in print journalism. After graduating with a diploma in print journalism I went on to work for a year in the media industry, the experience of which was highly unsatisfying as a working professional. This pushed …

Jocelyne Vokouma

Jocelyne Karimatou Boussari Vokouma is my name and I am from Burkina Faso. I was born in Adjohon, Republic of Benin and studied in Burkina Faso and France. At the university, my research interests focused early on weaving as a repository of local knowledge and history as well as a dynamic element of material culture. …

Baba Coulibaly

I am Baba Coulibaly. I studied in Mali up to the university level and then received a scholarship to write a doctoral dissertation in geography at Aix-Marseille University (France) in 2013. For a few years now, I have been a researcher at the Institute of Humanities (ISH) and lecturer at the Faculty of History and …

Xiaolan Lin

Before I came to the Netherlands, I had first finished my bachelor's in Architecture at the Southeast University in Nanjing, China. It has one of the four best architecture schools in China. Unlike most other friends of mine who chose to pursue their master's in China, I decided to take up the challenge of going …

Fidelia Serwaa Ametewee

  My interest in the arts and related creative processes and experiences can be traced to my childhood interactions with my mother. Those daily interactions gave me the privilege to observe my mother’s ability, as a clothing designer, to creatively manipulate textured fabric into an outstanding finished work of fashion. I could hardly notice at …