MIASU

The Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit is an interdisciplinary research unit at the University of Cambridge based within the Department of Social Anthropology. It was founded in 1986 by Professor Caroline Humphrey and Professor Urgunge Onon and has since become a centre of international importance for studies on the region with an area of interest centred on Mongolia and extending across the region of the great steppes to the Himalayas.

Since its foundation the Unit has supported and trained students from Inner Asia and developed a network of key scholars working in the region which has enabled the development of a broad programme of research activities and events reflecting diverse interests within the area. The current director is Dr Hildegard Diemberger.