Wild Botanicals of Inner Asia in the Times of a Global Health Crisis

Sayana Namsaraeva is a senior research associate at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at the University of Cambridge, working on the ESRC funded project ‘Resource frontiers: managing water on a trans-border Asian river’. Her research interests embrace a wide range of topics in Mongolia and China studies, Continental Colonialism and Border Studies, with particular attention to Inner Asian borderlands. She teaches a course on ‘Borders and Borderlands in North Asia’ for the Inner Asia Paper at the Department of Social Anthropology. In an effort to address environmental challenges, she also pursues a practice-oriented agenda with a focus on natural resource management, transnational waters and foraging Siberian medicinal plants during times of global health crises.