EDITORIAL & SCHOLARLY BOARDS, EXTERNAL APPOINTMENTS
2023…Gipan
Member of Academic Advisory Board
2022…Archive Nepal
Member of Advisory Council
2020-2021. 7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Member of Abstract Review Committee
2020…. Canadian Language Museum
Member of the Board of Directors
2020…. Association for the Promotion and Preservation of Himalayan Cultures
Honorary Committee Member
2019…. International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics
Advisory Committee Member
2019….Prince’s Trust Canada Indigenous Languages Revitalization Initiative
Advisory Group Member
2019….Cambridge Heritage Research Centre
Affiliated Member
2019….Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology
Member of Scientific Committee
2019….Przegląd Orientalistyczny
Member of Editorial Board
2018….Verba Africana
Member of Scientific Committee
2018….Folklore Foundation (India)
Member of Advisory Board
2018… UBC Language Sciences
Steering Committee Member
2015… Himalayan Archive (University of Vienna, Austria)
International Consultant
2014… Recovering Voices (Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA)
Member of Advisory Board
2014… Portuguese Anthropological Digital Archives Project
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – FCSH/NOVA, Lisboa | Portugal
Scientific Consultant
2014… EL Publishing (ELPub)
Editorial Advisory Board Member
2013… AAA Task Force on Cultural Heritage
Committee Member
2012… Minority Language in Today’s Global Society
Member of Editorial Board
2012… Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS)
Member of Executive Council (ex-officio)
2012… Alliance for Linguistic Diversity
Member of Advisory Committee
2012… Museum Anthropology
Member of Editorial Board
2012… Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale)
Curatorial Affiliate, Division of Anthropology
2012… National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution)
Research Collaborator
2012… Book 2.0
Member of Editorial Board
2012… Centre for Material Texts (Cambridge)
Member of Advisory Committee
2012… ETC-Nepal (Ithaca, New York)
Member of Advisory Council
2011… Open Book Publishers (Cambridge)
Member of Editorial Board and Advisory Panel
2010… Le centre pour l’édition électronique ouverte (CLÉO) – CNRS
Councillor for the United Kingdom
2010… Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity (RNLD)
Member of International Advisory Panel
2010… Enhanced Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences (ELiSS)
Member of Editorial Board
2009… Digital Humanities @ Cambridge
University of Cambridge, Member of Steering Commitee & Research Group
2009… Britain-Nepal Academic Council (BNAC)
Member of Executive Committee
2009… Mongolian and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU)
University of Cambridge, Member of Management Committee
2005… Himalayan Journal of Democracy and Development
Nepal Study Center, University of New Mexico, Member of Editorial Board
2005… Liberal Democracy Nepal Bulletin
Nepal Study Center, University of New Mexico, Member of Editorial Board
2004… Tibetan and Himalayan Library
University of Virginia, Member of Executive Board
2003… Bulletin of Tibetology
Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangkok, Sikkim, Member of Editorial Board
2002… European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (EBHR)
Contributing Editor for the Netherlands, Editorial Board Member
HIMALAYA
Co-Editor (2013-2017)
HAU, Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Member of Editorial Board (2011-2017
Studies of Tribes and Tribals
Kamala-Raj Publishers, Delhi, Member of Editorial Board, (2002-2010)
Himalayan Linguistics
A refereed web journal and archive devoted to the study of Himalayan languages Member of Editorial Board, (2001-2010)
Peace and Democracy in South Asia (PDSA)
International e-journal, Editorial Advisory Member, (2004-2007)
Contributions to Nepalese Studies
Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies (CNAS), Tribhuvan University, Editor, (2008-2009)
Other Academic Service
I am regularly asked to act as a peer reviewer for proposals and applications for research funding in the UK, USA and Europe (AHRC, SSRC, ESRC, NSF, etc), for sabbatical leave, for leading international journals. I have served as an internal examiner at Cambridge and as external examiner at SOAS (University of London).