About : Our Team

Who are we?

Dr Mark Turin, Director (Linguist and Anthropologist, with a research focus on South Asia and the Himalayas)
Claire Wheeler, Collections Assistant (BA Cantab, with experience in publishing)
Eleanor Wilkinson, Collections Assistant (MA Museum Studies, University of Leicester)
Sukanya Rai-Sharma, Collections Assistant (BA Cantab, background in language and linguistics)
Bruno Rinvolucri, Technician (BA SOAS in Social Anthropology, pursuing a MSc in Museum Ethnography at Oxford University)
Walter Stanish, Technical Advisor

Imogen Gunn, Research Assistant (March 2009 - December 2010)
Susie Peachey, Project Intern (August - September 2010)
Piers Riley-Smith, Project Intern (August - September 2010)
Hikmat Khadka, Academic Visitor (June - September 2009)
Felipe Ewald, Intern (May 2010)
Mel Rouse, Collections Assistant (June - September 2010)
Thomas Turnbull, Collections Assistant (June - September 2010)
Halcyon Frost, Collections Assistant (June - September 2010)

Executive Board - Members

Charity Appell McNabb (Independent Arts and Crafts Professional)
Dr Laura P. Appell-Warren (Anthropologist and Educator, St Mark's School)
Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey (Founder of the Chadwyck-Healey Publishing Group)
Stefan Kosciuszko (formerly a Schroders banker, Asia House CEO and Hinduja Group Chief of Staff)
Professor Nicholas Thomas (Director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

Executive Board - Chairman

Professor Alan Macfarlane (Anthropologist and Historian, Fellow of the British Academy and of King's College, Cambridge)

The Executive Board wish to thank Tony Beck, Wendy Brown, Liz Farmer, Chris Fairless, Su Ford, Geoff Green, Dr Liz Haslemere, Daniel Ho, Adrian Newman (of AVMG), Helen Varley Sargan and the entire team at CRASSH for their help with many aspects of establishing the project, and Dr Amity A. Doolittle for her role in the Executive Board during the establishment of the project in 2009.