Mark Liechty Author & Editor

Mark Liechty is Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a South Asianist by training with a research specialization in the modern culture and history of Nepal. He is the author of Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal, which received the 2017 Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literature. His work at UIC focuses on world history, South Asian colonial history, culture theory, youth culture, and cultures of the body. He is the co-editor, with Michael Hutt and Stephanie Lotter, of Epicentre to Aftermath: Rebuilding and Remembering in the Wake of Nepal's Earthquakes, forthcoming with the Press in 2021.