Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff is a professor of anthropology in the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Before joining the Graduate Institute in 2003, she held teaching and research positions in the US, Canada, France and Switzerland. Her research interests focus on the rights of non-state groups (especially indigenous peoples and religious minorities), the cultural dimension of law, and critical multiculturalism. Her publications include several authored and edited books, and numerous articles and chapters published in Europe and North America. She is presently working on a book addressing the paradoxes of indigeneity and multiculturalism in Canada.