Emily T. Yeh, Ph.D., UC Berkeley 2003, is an Assistant Professor interested in the relationship between society and nature. She has conducted ethnographic and historical research on property rights, resource conflicts, emerging environmentalisms, and the political economy and cultural politics of development and land use change in Tibetan regions of China. In addition, she has worked on the politics of identity and race in the Tibetan diaspora. Broader research and teaching interests include transnational conservation, critical development studies, the relationship between nature, territory, and the nation, geographies of consumption, environmental/climate justice, and environmental history. Her regional expertise is in China, Tibet, and the Himalayas.

Phone: 303-492-5438 Emily Yeh personal web page: email: emily.yeh@colorado.edu