Faculty Notes | Shangrila Joshi | 2025-2026

This past year Shangrila Joshi received research funding from the Rubin Museum to complete an in-depth ethnography of the Machchhindra Nath Jatra, a 2000 year old annual procession tradition followed by the Newa Indigenous People of Nepal to invite the monsoon rains and to ceremonially remember how they developed resilience to a prolonged historical drought. She is writing a book about the relevance of this tradition for understanding the connections between Indigenous knowledge, governance, and climate resilience. As a Storymaker Fellow she attended a week-long retreat for fellows in June 2025 at the Marine Science Center in Santa Catalina Island. In July she published ‘Towards an Indigenous Climate Epistemology’ in the Critical Humanities journal. She also contributed to a panel on Just Sequestration at the 5th Forum of the International Sociology Association in Rabat. In March 2026, she gave a talk ‘Climate Change Impacts on Women’ at the annual Women’s History Month Continuing Legal Education event ‘Women Shaping a Sustainable Future’ hosted by the WA State Supreme Court Gender and Justice Commission at the Temple of Justice on the Capitol Campus in Olympia. In April 2026 she gave the keynote lecture on Climate Justice at Earth Week at Centralia College.