Galen Murton

Marie S. Curie Fellow

Galen Murton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Science and Technology at James Madison University with teaching responsibilities in the Geographic Sciences Program. He completed his PhD in the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder (2017) with a dissertation that examines the social and geopolitical impacts of infrastructure projects in High Asia with a close focus on road developments between China and Nepal.

CV

Education

since 2018
Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Science and Technology at James Madison University
2017
PhD, Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
Dissertation: Border Corridors: Roads, Trade, Aid and the Geopolitics of State-making between Nepal and China. Committee: Emily Yeh (Chair), John O’Loughlin, Tim Oakes, Joe Bryan, Tina Harris
2011
MALD, International Relations, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Thesis: The Himalaya Complex: Roads and Conflict in High Asia Committee: Andrew Hess (Chair), Eileen Babbitt, John Curtis Perry, Alan Henrikson
2000
BA, Religion, Middlebury College
Thesis: Chakrasamvara Tradition: Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Tantra in India and Tibet Advisor: William Waldron

Grants and Fellowships

2017
Marie S Curie Action Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF-2016) (€171,460) European Commission Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
2016
Summer Dissertation Writing Fellowship ($6000) Graduate School, University of Colorado Boulder
2014
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad ($20,108)
US Department of Education
2014
International Dissertation Research Fellowship ($20,000)
Andrew Mellon Foundation, Social Science Research Council
2014
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Chinese) ($7,500) Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
2013
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Hindi) ($33,000)
Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
2013
Kathryn W. Davis Fellowship for Peace ($10,000 declined)
Middlebury College Chinese Language School
2009-11
Bosworth/Board of Overseers Fellowship ($45,000)
The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Service and Extracurricular Activities

2015-present
Co-founder/Co-director, Rasuwa Relief volunteer humanitarian aid organization 2015-present
2015-present
Coordinating Member, Nepal Research Collective
2014-present
Executive Council Member, Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
2012-present
Co-director/Co-founder, Tibetan-Himalayan Studies Working Group, CU-Boulder
October 2014
Volunteer, Tsadra Foundation Translation and Transmission Conference
2010-2011
Director, Southwest-Central Asia-Caucasus Forum, The Fletcher School
2005-present
Wilderness First Responder (WFR), former Wilderness Emergency Technician
1997-2000
Guide, Middlebury Mountain Club, Middlebury College

Contact:
Highland Asia Research Group
LMU, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oettingenstr. 67
80538 Munich, Germany
martin.saxer@lmu.de | +49 89 2180 9639

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