Mark Liechty, PhD
Professor
Anthropology, Sociocultural
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About
Mark Liechty is a cultural anthropologist with a joint appointment in Anthropology and History at UIC. He is a South Asianist whose research focuses on Nepali history and society.
His research and teaching interests include class theory and social organization, mass media, consumer culture, cultural history, social and cultural theory, tourism, youth culture, globalization, “development,” and South Asian history. Major publications include: Suitably Modern: Making Middle Class Culture in a New Consumer Society (Princeton University Press, 2003), Out Here in Kathmandu: Modernity on the Global Periphery (Kathmandu: Martin Chautari Press, 2010), ), The Global Middle Classes: Theorizing Through Ethnography (edited with Rachel Heiman and Karla Freeman, Santa Fe: SAR Press, 2012), and Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).
His most recent books are Epicenter to Aftermath: Rebuilding and Remembering in the Wake of Nepal’s Earthquakes (edited with Michael Hutt and Stefanie Lotter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) and What Went Right: Sustainability Versus Dependence in Nepal’s Hydropower Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Since 1997 he has served as (founding) co-editor of the Nepal Studies journal Studies in Nepali History and Society.
Education
PhD in Anthropology from University of Pennsylvania, 1994
BA in History and Biology from Goshen College, 1983
Graduate of Woodstock International School, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India, 1978