Diana Riboli, Ph.D., is Professor and Head of the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. She has been President of the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (ISARS) since 2015. From 1992 to present, she has conducted numerous ethnographic research in South and Southeast Asia (Nepal and Peninsular Malaysia), focusing on the study of the therapeutic, political and spiritual role of ethnomedical systems –such as so-called shamanism– in marginalized indigenous groups. In 2019, she began a new research project dedicated to the ecocosmological perceptions of minority and discriminated groups in relation to the recent rapid spread of Christianity and the dramatic increase of environmental disasters in Nepal.

Her published works include Tunsuriban. Shamanism in the Chepang of Southern and Central Nepal (Mandala Book Point, 2000), Shamanism and Violence. Power, Repression and Suffering in Indigenous Religious Conflicts (edited with Davide Torri, Ashgate, 2013), Consciousness and Indigenous Healing Systems: Between Indigenous Perceptions and Neuroscience (Nova Publishers, 2014), Dealing with Disasters: Perspectives from Eco-Cosmologies (edited with Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern and Davide Torri, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and Sciamanesimo e Persona: Una Svolta Ontologica? (edited with Sergio Botta and Davide Torri, Series Sapienza Sciamanica, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 2023). She has authored and coauthored numerous articles and essays on indigenous ethnomedical systems, concepts and responses to violence in egalitarian societies, resistance of indigenous cultures, disaster anthropology, concepts of person and personhood in indigenous philosophies, and anthropological research methods.