ANHS is a membership organization governed by its Constitution. The main activities of ANHS include:
- Publication of the HIMALAYA Journal
- Sponsorship and organization of panels and special sessions at the Annual Conference on South Asia
- Senior Fellowship Program
- Occasional Seminar Series
- Dor Bahadur Bista Prize (Best Student Paper)
- Publication of calendars
- Maintain regular communication among members through the Himal-Research electronic mailing list.
Annual reports
2009 Annual Report
Annual meeting
The annual meeting of ANHS is usually organized during the Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin.
Please join us for General Meeting at the 2010 South Asia Conference
Friday, October 15, 2010 (6:00-7:30 p.m)
Assembly Room, Concourse Hotel
Madison, Wisconsin
Senior Fellowship Program
ANHS recently announced the applications for support of short term research or other scholarly projects that will advance knowledge of the Himalaya-Karakoram-Hindukush mountain regions. Applicants should be at the postdoctoral level or have equivalent professional experience. The fellowship will support work focusing on any aspect of Himalayan studies.
ANHS announces the award of its 2010 Senior Fellowship
This is the first year of the ANHS Senior Fellowship Program and we received several excellent applications. In order to highlight our new, broader mission and to better serve the research interests of our members, the ANHS Executive Council decided to fund two awards: one for Nepal and one for the high mountain regions of Asia outside Nepal.
ANHS hopes this award marks the beginning of a vital fellowship program to support projects that will advance knowledge about the greater Himalayan region. The awards for 2010 are:
Dr. Birendra Raj Giri (FELS/ChDL, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)
Project Title: Bonded Labour Practice in Nepal
Professor Sarah J. Halvorson (Dept. of Geography, University of Montana)
Project Title: Community Vulnerability and Response to Glacial Retreat, Bhutan
ANHS plans to announce the 2011 Senior Fellowship Program in December 2010.
occasional Seminar Series in Kathmandu, Nepal
As part of its ongoing collaboration, ANHS and the Social Science Baha (SSB) in Kathmandu, Nepal, organizes short workshops/seminars for Nepali students, researchers, scholars and the public in general. The topics of workshops/seminars generally depend on the academic and research insterests of visiting scholars who leads the workshops/seminars.
See the announcement (the 2010 occasional Seminar Series)
Dor Bahadur Bista Prize (for best graduate student paper)
ANHS annually awards the Dor Bahadur Bista Prize for best graduate student paper submitted to this ANHS competition. The prize honors the life, career, and service of Dor Bahadur Bista, Nepal’s first anthropologist and former Honorary President of the ANHS predecessor organization, the Nepal Studies Association (NSA).
 The purpose of the Prize is to recognize outstanding scholarship by students whose research focuses on the areas of High Asia (Hindu Kush –
Karakoram – Himalaya – Tibetan Plateau) that comprise the principal interests of ANHS. Submissions from all academic disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, and arts will be accepted.
Find out more about the 2010 Dor Bahadur Bista Prize
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