Resident Representative  Monalisa Maharjan, Ph.D.

Monalisa Maharjan obtained her PhD from the University of Évora, Portugal, in 2016. Prior to her current position, she worked as a research fellow at the UNESCO Chair for Intangible Cultural Heritage and Traditional Know-how and CIDEHUS (Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades) for several years on various projects related to ICH in Portugal. She also has experience in documenting various aspects of community heritage through the anthropology of inscriptions project in Nepal. Her recent research focuses on heritage activism related to ancient water spouts within the Heritage at Placemaking project.