Uttam Lal

A doctorate from JNU, New Delhi and currently a faculty at Sikkim University, Gangtok. He was an Erasmus+ Mobility Programme Guest Fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark in 2018. He was also a UGC-IUC associate at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla and a La Trobe(Australia) Asia visiting fellow for 2024. Apart from being a regular faculty member of the Department of Geography, he is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR. His area of academic interest covers Himalayan Ecology, Highland social-economic dynamics and Rangeland, Borderlands Studies.


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