Mabel Denzin Gergan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Florida State University. Her research in South Asia combines perspectives from materialist geographies, tribal/indigenous studies, political ecology, and postcolonial and decolonial frameworks to theorize the relationship between the Indian state and its Himalayan borderlands. Her interests also include environmental risk and precarity, indigenous youth politics, critiques of the Anthropocene, and race and ethnicity in South Asia.