Martin Mills

Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen

Regional Focus: Tibet
Date of Presentation: Session 4, February 25, 2021

Biography:

Dr. Martin A. Mills is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Director of the Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research. Dr. Mills' principal research focus is the anthropological study of Tibetan communities, in particular its religious and governmental institutions. Author of Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundations of Authority in Gelukpa Monasticism (Routledge 2003), he has carried out fieldwork in Tibet, Ladakh, China, Northern India, and Scotland over the last thirty years. He is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and a member of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth, as well as a member of the International Association for Tibetan Studies and the International Association of Ladakh Studies. Dr. Mills is Secretary of the Cross-Party Group on Tibet within the Scottish Parliament, Chairman of the China Studies Group at Aberdeen, and Academic Representative to Court in the University of Aberdeen.