Nadine Plachta, Ph.D.

Office: +977 1 553 72 04
Mobile: +977 98 18 765 225
E-mail: plachta@sai.uni-heidelberg.de
Meetings by appointment

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D.

Doctoral Program Global Studies

Center for Global Studies, Walter Benjamin Kolleg,
University of Bern

Dissertation:Himalayan Borderland Communities:
Identity, Belonging, and Place among the Tsumpas

2018

M.A.

Social Anthropology

South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University

2009

B.A.

Religious Studies

Institute for the Science of Religion, Heidelberg University

2007

Academic Employment

Resident Representative Kathmandu Office, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University	since 2014
Local Administration Kathmandu Research Unit “Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Premodern Nepal,” Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities	since 2014
Research Associate Center for Buddhist Studies, Kathmandu University	2012
Teaching Associate Institute for the Science of Religion and Central Asian Studies, University of Bern	2009-2014

Selected peer-reviewed publications

Peer reviewed book chapters and articles

2019	In press. Plachta, Nadine. An Open Road? Imaginaries of Modernity and Mobility in Tsum. The Highlander Journal 1(1) (with Konstantin Ikonomidis).
2019	In review. Plachta, Nadine. Ruptures, 3 Years on. Narrating Territory, Sovereignty, and Disaster at the Nepal-China Border. SINHAS: Studies in Nepali History and Society, Special Issue: Nepal Geographies (expected fall 2019).
2016	Plachta, Nadine 2016. Redefining Monastic Education. The Case of Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery in the Kathmandu Valley. In Jessica Birkenholtz and Megan Sijapati (eds), Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya. New York: Routledge, pp. 129-146.

Opinion pieces

2018	Plachta, Nadine. Von alten und neuen Wegen in Tsum. In Titus Arnu (ed.), Tsum Glück. Ein entlegenes Tal im Himalaya. Munich: Sieveking Verlag, pp. 17-25.
2015	Plachta, Nadine. Lapchi Relief Project.
2015	Plachta, Nadine. Rebuilding Tsum.

Service

Roadsides

Editorial team member

A collaborative online publishing platform on infrastructure

in Asia

since 2018

SAI Help Nepal

Co-founder, project coordinator

Post-earthquake relief and recovery efforts in urban

and rural areas of Nepal

2015-2018

Goethe Zentrum Kathmandu

Vice President

German language, culture, and events

2014-2018

Interests

Ethnicity and governance

Infrastructure, connectivity, and mobility

Architecture and build environment

South Asian borderlands

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