About
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)
- 2023-2024 Institute for the Humaities Faculty Fellowship
- 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
Erik Mueggler is Professor of Anthropology.
