Assistant Professor Zilpha Modi

Associate Program Coordinator

Dr Zilpha Modi is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies in Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, India. She holds an MA from Jawaharlal Nehru University, an MPhil from Oxford University and a PhD from Rajiv Gandhi University, and has conducted extensive fieldwork among Yobin (Lisu) communities in far eastern Arunachal Pradesh.

An Indigenous member of the Milang tribe and native speaker of Adi, Modi has served as Associate Program Director within Training and Resources for Indigenous Community Linguists since its inception in 2015.