Mark Turin (PhD, Linguistics, Leiden University, 2006) is a linguist and anthropologist. Before joining the South Asian Studies Council at Yale, Mark was a Research Associate at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Now co-located at Cambridge and Yale, Mark directs both the World Oral Literature Project, an urgent global initiative to document and make accessible endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record, and the Digital Himalaya Project which he co-founded in 2000 as a platform to make multi-media resources from the Himalayan region widely available online.
Dr Turin writes and teaches on ethnolinguistics, visual anthropology, digital archives and fieldwork methodology at the Universities of Cambridge and Yale. He is the author or coauthor of four books, the editor of five volumes and has published numerous articles and book chapters.