Dan Smyer Yü is Kuige Professor of Ethnology, School of Ethnology and Sociology and the National Centre for Borderlands Ethnic Studies in Southwest China at Yunnan University. He received his doctoral degree in anthropology from the University of California at Davis in 2006. Prior to his current faculty appointment, he was a Senior Researcher/Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and a core member of the Transregional Research Network (CETREN) at University of Göttingen. Currently he is an elected board member of International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC), a member of the Advisory Board of Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, and the co-lead of the Thematic Working Group on Himalayan Environmental Humanities.
His contribution to KPA IV:
Smyer Yü contributes his research and teaching to the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) at Cologne primarily in the fields of environmental humanities, religious studies, sustainability