Phurwa Gurung

Tashi Delek! My name is Phurwa Dondrub Gurung, a fifth-year doctoral student at the department. I also did an MA here. Over the years, I feel so grateful to have received rigorous training from and with outstanding teachers and

Doctoral candidate Phurwa Gurung was awarded a National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration grant to work together with local Dolpopa scholars to document endangered oral literature in Dolpo, northwest Nepal.National

Phurwa Gurung was awarded a Wenner Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for his dissertation project, “Reordering highland territories: State-building, indigeneity and multispecies worldmaking 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 International Dissertation Research

Phurwa Gurung has been awarded the highly competitive Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) fellowship for 2022, funded by the Mellon Foundation. Phurwa was selected from a total of 870 applicants from graduate

We are pleased to announce Phurwa Gurung's student paper received an award for his paper published in Geoforum in 2021. Phurwa will receive a 1000 euro award, which is intended to support conference

The Dor Bahadur Bista Prize honors 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