Erik Mueggler

Erik Mueggler is Katherine Verdery Collegiate Professor of Anthropology. His ethnographic and historical work is with indigenous peoples in southwest China. His research interests include ritual and politics; histories of natural history; histories of death, and slavery and literacy.

Affiliation(s)

• Leiberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
• PhD Program in Anthropology and History
• Accellerated Masters Degree Program inTranscultural Studies

Award(s)

• 2021-2022. Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
• 2019-2020. Guggenheim Fellowship. Literacy, Sovereignty, Bondage: a Native Hereditary Chieftanship in Qing China. 
• 2019. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend.
• 2013. Julian Steward Award for the best monograph in Environmental Anthropology. The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet (University of California Press, 2011).
• 2002-2008 2002. MacArthur Fellowship