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Anna Stirr
Anna Stirr is associate professor of Asian studies and director of the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research focuses on music, dance, language, intimacy and politics in South Asia, particularly in Nepal and the Himalayan region. She is the author of Singing across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal (Oxford University Press, 2017), which won the 2019 Bernard S. Cohn Prize from the Association for Asian Studies, and the co-director of Singing a Great Dream (2019), a documentary film about the life and songs of Nepali revolutionary composer Khusiram Pakhrin.
Contact: UH Mānoa Department of Asian Studies, 1890 East-West Rd, Moore Hall 416, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.