18 Facts About Mark Turin

Mark Turin was born on 1973 and is a British anthropologist, linguist and occasional radio broadcaster who specialises in the Himalayas and the Pacific Northwest.

Mark Turin is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, cross-appointed between the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies.

Mark Turin was born into an Italian-Dutch family, and raised in the United Kingdom and briefly in New York.

Mark Turin's Italian father, Duccio Turin, was a UN diplomat and chief architect of the Palestinian refugee camps.

Mark Turin's Dutch mother, Hannah Oorthuys, is a graphic designer and therapist, and the daughter of the photographer Cas Oorthuys.

Mark Turin's half-brother is Luca Mark Turin, a biophysicist and writer with a long-standing interest in bioelectronics, the sense of smell, perfumery, and the fragrance industry.

Mark Turin is an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.

Mark Turin's work is centered on Indigenous language endangerment, reclamation, and revitalization.

Mark Turin has conducted research in the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China and in the Indian state of Sikkim.

Since 2015, Mark Turin has worked in collaborative partnership with the Heiltsuk First Nation through a Language Mobilization Partnership, of which the University of British Columbia is a member.

In 2007, Mark Turin established and directed the Translation and Interpretation Unit in the United Nations Mission in Nepal, a special political mission mandated by the UN Security Council to support Nepal's peace process.

Mark Turin has occasionally worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.

Mark Turin has been involved in many long term research projects and initiatives.

Mark Turin directs the World Oral Literature Project which he established at the University of Cambridge in 2009.

Since 2019, Mark Turin has served as the principal investigator for the Relational Lexicography Project, a framework and toolkit for collaborative, community-informed dictionary work with marginalized languages.

Mark Turin is one of the project leads on a free interactive digital map of the languages of New York City, one of the most linguistically diverse metropolitan areas in the world.

From 2013 to 2017, together with Sienna Craig, Mark Turin served as editor of Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies.

Mark Turin is founding editor of the World Oral Literature Series with the Cambridge-based Open Book Publishers, which aims to preserve and promote the oral literatures of Indigenous communities in innovative, responsive, ethical and culturally-appropriate ways.