Calum Blaikie

Calum Blaikie holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Kent (2013). He has done research and applied work on the materia medica, pharmaceutical production and distribution of Sowa Rigpa in the Indian Himalayas since 2001. After successfully leading the award-winning international NGO Nomad RSI for over ten years, he conducted a postdoctoral fellowship within the French National Research Agency’s (ANR) Pharmasud project on the traditional pharmaceutical industry in India more generally. His work is published in several journal articles, among others in Current Anthropology. Currently, Calum holds a research position at the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Social Anthropology.

CV: Calum Blaikie

Contact: calumblaikie@hotmail.com