Christopher Walker

Christopher Walker is a web developer for Northwestern University and a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Chicago, where he taught first-year Tibetan last year. Chris has been a contributor of Tibetan computing tools for a number of years—notably the Extended Wylie keyboard now bundled in Mac OS X. He has helped to author several educational materials, including the Lhasa Verbs Dictionary, and is a technical contributor to the Tibetan & Himalayan Library. Chris is a graduate of Tibet University's language program and undertook his fieldwork in partnership with the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences.