Dr Kumud Rana

Lecturer in Sociology (Gender and Decolonisation)

Current Teaching

GEN.101 Gender Studies: Identities, Inequalities and Politics - Co-Convenor

SOCL.314 Feminism and Social Change - Co-Convenor

SOCL.913 Gender, Sex and Bodies - Convenor

Sherpa: Trouble on Everest (Post-screening discussion organised by Many Worlds Films)
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

Queer Indigeneity and the Tharu Jhumra Nach in Nepal
Oral presentation

Is there a discipline called Nepal Studies?
Invited talk

European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference
Participation in conference - Academic

The crises of the ‘casteless queer’ and indigenous organising in Nepal
Oral presentation

Friendship and the ethics of research
Invited talk

Queer and Trans World Anthropologies
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Discussant for the paper, 'Queer answers to Nepali cultural heritage: The case of 'rainbow teej'' by Dr Marion Wettstein (Postdoctoral researcher, Heidelberg University)
Invited talk

Epistemologies of the Global South
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Decoloniality, Indigeneity and Queer Heritage-Making Practices in Nepal
Invited talk

Decolonising Creative Practice Research: Visual unlearning, creative collaboration and trust building in power imbalanced research projects, by Dr Kerstin Hacker (Senior Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University)
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

European Association of Social Anthropologists (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Many Worlds Films
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

Citizenship Studies (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Decoloniality, Queerness, Indigeneity: Thinking through the Indigenous Queer and the queerly Indigenous in Nepal
Oral presentation

Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalayas
Participation in conference - Academic

Britain-Nepal Academic Council (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Postcolonial Feminisms (Invited Lecture)
Invited talk

Nepal Conversations podcast
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

Journal of Gender Studies (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Britain Nepal Academic Council Executive Committee (External organisation)
Membership of council

Studies in Nepali History and Society (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Studies in Nepali History and Society (Journal)
Publication peer-review

BNAC PhD Dissertation Prize 2021
Prize (including medals and awards)