Incoming Member
Anna Marie Stirr
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Music
Website
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