Tobias Marschall currently pursues a PhD in anthropology at The Graduate Institute Geneva (IHEID), focussing on a visual ethnography of movement and space amongst the Kyrgyz of the Afghan Pamirs. Tobias and his co-author Till share an interest in mobility in Central Asia and spent two periods of joint fieldwork in the Afghan Wakhan (2016, 2019).

Till Mostowlansky is Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology & Sociology of The Graduate Institute Geneva (IHEID), the author of Azan on the Moon: Entangling Modernity along Tajikistan’s Pamir Highway (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017) and works on a book project on humanitarianism, development and Islam in High Asia. For more information see: mostowlansky.com.