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Sienna Radha Craig is Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire (USA). Raised in Santa Barbara, California, she received her BA in Religious Studies from Brown University (1995) and her PhD in cultural anthropology from Cornell University (2006). Craig’s research and work in medical and cultural anthropology has received support from the National Science Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, among other sources.

Craig has authored several books, including The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives Between Nepal and New York (University of Washington Press, 2020), Mustang in Black and White, with photographer Kevin Bubriski (Vajra Publications, 2018), Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine (University of California Press, 2012) and Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage through the Himalayas (Wisdom Publications, 2008). She is also the co-editor of Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds (Berghahn Books, 2010) and many other publications. Craig served as co-editor of HIMALAYA, Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, from 2012-2017 and is an Executive Council member of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM). 

Craig enjoys writing across genres and has published poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, and children’s literature. This includes her children’s book, Clear Sky, Red Earth: A Himalayan Story, featuring artist Tenzin Norbu’s paintings, now in its third edition (Mera Publications, 2018) in English  and published in Tibetan (TALI, 2011).