Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado Boulder M.A., Geneva Graduate Institute B.A., American Univ.
Tsering Lhamo started her journey in international development during her undergraduate studies at American University in Washington, D.C., earning a bachelor’s in international studies with a minor in biology. Between 2017-2018, as an American India Foundation Fellow, she collaborated with the Maternal and Newborn Survival Initiative (MANSI) to conduct baseline research and implement interventions for adolescent reproductive health among underserved female populations in rural Uttarakhand, India. While pursuing her graduate studies at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, she examined the environmental sustainability of the caterpillar fungus commodity in response to global health market trends and Himalayan geopolitics. She completed her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also taught courses on the Geography of China and Sustainable Futures, Environment, and Society. Her research interests encompass feminist geopolitics, sustainable development, political ecology, traditional medicines, and cross-border trade across the Himalayan borderlands. |
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International Development
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Geographies of illicit
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Global Health
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Natural Resource Commodification
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Geography of China & the Himalayas
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Feminist Geopolitics
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Political Ecology
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Development Geography
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Himalayas
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Political Ecology of Caterpillar Fungus
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Small-Scale Cross-Border Trade
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- (2026, January 15). Cross-border trade, identities, and everyday geopolitics [Conference presentation]. IIAS Asian Borderlands Research Network Conference, Panel “Everyday Economies of Mobility and Trade in Asian Borderlands,” Taipei, Taiwan.
- (2026, March 17–21). Navigating Multi-national Himalayan Borderlands [Conference presentation]. AAG Annual Meeting, Panel “International Migration,” San Francisco, CA.
- (2024, March 22). Caterpillar fungus, embodied geopolitics, and the making of borderland lives in the Eastern Himalayas [Colloquium presentation]. Centre for Himalayan Studies Colloquium, University of North Bengal, Siliguri, India.
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- Fulbright Nehru Student Researcher, US Department of State, 2023-2024
- US Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow (FLAS), US Department of Education, 2023
- William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India, American India Foundation, 2017-2018
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