Asia

This research project investigates the use of contemplative Buddhist practices and their associated traditional, yet changing, contexts in Bhutan.

Overcoming historical discrimination and contemporary disadvantages, a powerful blossoming of writings by Tibetan women has emerged over the past few decades.

As part of the field research for my master's thesis in Comparative Politics, I will be traveling to Israel this summer with a fellowship from Hebrew University.

This project will create an interdisciplinary and international research-education working group constituted by educators from universities, industry and NGO in US and China, to develop a multi-sited study that address the tangled geopolitics of innovation, sustainability and standardization of smart cities in the US-China context.

Xu Xiake (1587-1641) was a Chinese geographer and travel writer of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).

I will serve as chair and participant on "Material Matters: (Re)envisioning "China" with the practice of art and architecture," a panel focused on architectural history at the 2018 Association of Asian Studies in Asia Conference at Ashoka University, New Delhi.

This dissertation is a study of the biographies of female revenants or delok (Tibetan, 'das log).

There are oceans of writing in Urdu and Persian that have not been translated into other languages.

The Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, the research and training arm of Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has proposed translating Brantly Womack's book, Asymmetry and International Relationships into Vietnamese.

My work approaches Tibetan migration to India in the second half of the twentieth century through the longer history of lay and monastic movement in the region to ask new questions of nationalism and bureaucratic regimes of citizenship in South Asia.