Amrit Tamang
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Education
M.Sc. Health and International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2021
B.S. in Community Health, 2018
About
Amrit Tamang is a Nepalese-American Indigenous Tamang scholar. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology, focusing on labour, mobilities, and Indigeneity in Nepal’s mountaineering and trekking tourism. His work centers on his community’s worldviews by examining how Tamang porters—people who carry loads for tourists/clients and tourism spaces—embody, and understand their labour. Through ethnography, visual storytelling, and collaborative public scholarship, he documents how Tamang porters’ everyday lives, kinship, and aspirations intersect with global adventure tourism economies.
Awards
Fulbright U.S. Student Research Award (2025–2026)
Fulbright–National Geographic Explorer Award (2025–2026)
pre-PhD ANHS-CAORC Himalayan Studies Fellowship (2025-2026)
UBC Public Scholars Initiative Fellowship (2025–2026)
UBC Institute of Asian Research Fellowship (2022-2024)