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 support his ongoing field research in Dolpo, Nepal, which uses听caterpillar fungus (yartsa gunbu) as a lens onto state building processes, indigenous territoriality,听the political ecology of conservation, and non-human agency.鈥澨�
He got the announcement of the award at the end of September.