Jelle J P Wouters teaches and researches anthropology at Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan. He holds an MPhil in Anthropology (distinction) from Oxford University and a PhD in Anthropology from the North-Eastern Hill University in Shillong, India.

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Jelle J P Wouters teaches and researches anthropology at Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan. He holds an MPhil in Anthropology (distinction) from Oxford University and a PhD in Anthropology from the North-Eastern Hill University in Shillong, India. Prior to joining Royal Thimphu College in 2015, he taught at Sikkim Central University, India, and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

He is the author and editor of 11 books, including In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency: Tribes, State, and Violence in Northeast India (Oxford University Press, 2018), Vernacular Politics in Northeast India: Democracy, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity (Oxford University Press, 2022), Subaltern Studies 2.0: Being Against the Capitalocene (Chicago University Press, 2022), and Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters (Routledge, 2024).

He currently serves as the co-lead of the Trans-Himalayan Environmental Humanities Working Group of the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC), which is a multinational venue of collaborative research and teaching on the Himalayan environment, climate change, and indigenous ecological knowledge. This collective explores the more-than-human meanings of the Earth, sustainability, and multispecies interactions and co-existence by building bridges between traditional knowledge systems and modern environmental sciences in the Anthropocene, the current epoch of the Earth largely induced by human industrial activities.

As a guest-researcher at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University, his research will contribute to discussions on more-than-human worlds, lively landscapes, climate change, and heritage in the Bhutan highlands and Highland Asia at large.