Mark Turin (born 1973) is a British anthropologist, linguist and occasional radio broadcaster who specialises in the Himalayas and the Pacific Northwest.
From 2014–2018, he was chair of the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program and acting co-director of the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Turin has been a consultant to the World Bank, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, and a number of United Nations agencies.
Since 2009, Turin has directed the World Oral Literature Project, with the goal of supporting Indigenous-led research and publishing beyond the academy.
He is the principal investigator for the Relational Lexicography (RelLex) project, which is developing a toolkit for dictionary-making for marginalized languages through community-informed methodologies.
Turin is one of the project leads on a free interactive digital map of New York City, one of the most linguistically diverse metropolitan areas in the world.