Sara Shneiderman, PhD

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts

Dept. of Anthropology, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Vancouver Campus

Fields

Anthropology, Asia, Citizenship, Disaster, International Affairs / Geopolitics, Migration, Religion, South Asia

Contact Information

Chosen name and pronouns:

She/Her/Hers

sara.shneiderman@ubc.ca

Tel: 604-822-4387

Tel: 604-671-6541

Twitter/ sshneiderman

Media Contact

Media Relations Specialist

Erik Rolfsen

Tel: 604.822.2644

Cell: 604.209.3048

Email: erik.rolfsen@ubc.ca

Expertise

Himalaya, Nepal, India, Tibet, social and cultural impacts of disaster and disaster response, migration and citizenship, democratization and secularization, political and social change, ethnicity and religion, inequality and poverty, affirmative action, Indigenous peoples,

Languages

Nepali, Tibetan

In the Media

SSHRC Partnership Development Grant: Reconstructing Nepal Roundtable Discussion on Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermaths Expertise, Labour and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction: a talk at The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies as part of their Wall Scholar Speaker Series. Disaster preparedness: what can we do better? Learning from disasters: Nepal copes with coronavirus pandemic 5 years after earthquake – The Conversation New laws weaponize citizenship in India – The Conversation TLEF snapshot: UBC Himalaya Program integrates language learning and community engaged learning Earthquake penpals: students a world apart learn about impact Reconstruction Conundrums – The Kathmandu Post What’s Brewing in Darjeeling – The Hindu Nepal’s Rule of Law Politics Demand Global Attention Co-authored with Ajay Pradhan – The Globe and Mail   For more, please click here