research overview
- I am a cultural anthropologist and historian specializing in contemporary Tibet and the USA. My research focuses on issues of colonialism and empire, history and memory, power and politics, refugees and citizenship, truth and lies, nationalism, senses of belonging, gender, war, and anthropology as theoretical storytelling. Since 1994, I have conducted research in Tibetan refugee communities in India and Nepal on the history and politics of the guerrilla army Chushi Gangdrug, culminating in my book 'Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Histories of a Forgotten War.' My research on empire can be found in my co-edited books 'Imperial Formations' and 'Ethnographies of US Empire.' Currently, I am conducting research on citizenship with Tibetans in Paris, Switzerland, New York City, Toronto, India, and Nepal.