Research Interests
My main research interests are on questions of power, political economy, and cultural politics in the nature-society relationship. Using primarily ethnographic methods, I have conducted research on property rights, natural resource conflicts, environmental history, development and landscape transformation, grassland management and environmental policies, and emerging environmentalisms in Tibetan areas of China. In addition, I have also worked on the politics of identity and race in the Tibetan diaspora, and on several NSF-funded interdisciplinary, collaborative projects on putative causes of rangeland degradation and vulnerability to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau. Broader research and teaching interests include transnational conservation, critical development studies, the relationship between nature, territory, and the nation, and environmental justice. My regional expertise is in China, Tibet, and the Himalayas.
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Despite living in Colorado and doing research in Tibet, I love the ocean and try to scuba dive when I get the chance. Fortunately, I also enjoy cycling and camping. I am also a "professora" of capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art, and mom of Osel and Seldron.
Recent Courses Taught
- Spring 2024 GEOG 3022 Climate Politics amd Policy
- Spring 2024 GEOG 5161 Research Design in Human Geography
- Fall 2023 GEOG 5632 Development Geography
- Spring 2023 GEOG 5161 Research Design in Human Geography
- Fall 2022 GEOG 6402 Political Ecology
- Spring 2022 GEOG 5161 Research Design in Human Geography
- Fall 2021 GEOG 5652 Introduction to Social Theory
- Spring 2021 GEOG 5161 Research Design in Human Geography
- Fall 2020 GEOG 5632 Development Geography
- Spring 2020 GEOG 5161 Research Design in Human Geography
- Spring 2019 GEOG 3822 Geography of China
- Fall 2019 GEOG 5632 Development Geography