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Incoming Member

Anna Marie Stirr

Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Member; additional funding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Music
Anna Marie Stirr is interested in the performing arts of Nepal and the Himalayan region. While at IAS, she will research the works of the Nepali performer and musicologist Subi Shah on performance traditions of central Nepal.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies
Spring

Degrees

Columbia University
Ph.D.
2009
Lawrence University
B.A.
2002

Honors

2024
Kalibhakta Pant International Folklore Prize
2021
Jana Sewa Shree
2019
Bernard S Cohn Prize for first books on South Asia
2016
Ali Miya Prize in Folklore

Appointments

University of Hawaii Manoa
2017
Associate Professor of Asian Studies
University of Hawaii Manoa
2021–2024
Director, Center for South Asian Studies
Tribhuvan University, Nepal
2018–2019
Fulbright Scholar, Anthropology & Music
University of Hawaii Manoa
2012–2017
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
University of Oxford
2009–2011
Mellon Career Development Fellow in Ethnomusicology
Leiden Institute of Area Studies
2011
Postdoctoral Fellow