KATIA BUFFETRILLE (EPHE/CRCAO, Paris)

• Fields of inter­est: Tibetan cul­tur­al and polit­i­cal issues in the con­text of PRC, ​‘pop­u­lar’ rit­u­als and their changes, issues on cur­rent Bud­dhist phe­nom­e­na (veg­e­tar­i­an­ism, self-immo­la­tions, etc), the trans­for­ma­tion of Yul-lha cults, lha-pa ​“trance medi­um”, the roles of yul lha cults among the Nyingma­pa and Bon­po com­mu­ni­ties, reli­gious author­i­ty in Rebgong.
• Email to Katia Buffetrille

FRANZ XAVER ERHARD (Uni­ver­si­ty of Leipzig)

• Fields of inter­est: Mod­ern and Con­tem­po­rary Tibetan Lit­er­a­ture from the 18th to the 20th cen­tu­ry; Tibetan Life Writ­ing; Mem­o­ry and Remem­ber­ing; Folk lit­er­a­ture; Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of Tibetan Societies
• Cur­rent projects: Sec­u­lar Life Writ­ing in Ear­ly Mod­ern Tibet; Devel­op­ment of Tibetan news­pa­per and print media (19th and 20th century)
• Email to Franz Xaver Erhard

ANDREAS GRUSCHKE (1960–2018)

• Fields of inter­est: Cul­tur­al mon­u­ments in east­ern Tibet and their socio-polit­i­cal con­text; cul­tur­al change in nomadic areas; cul­tur­al secu­ri­ty and social devel­op­ment; sus­tain­able devel­op­ment in rur­al areas
• Projects: Con­junc­ture of accep­tance and non-accep­tance on state reset­tle­ment projects in rur­al areas

ALLAN DEGEN (Ben-Guri­on Uni­ver­si­ty of the Negev, Israel)

• Research area/interests: Nomadism, pas­toral­ism, High alti­tudes, deserts, live­stock, yaks, camels
• Cur­rent projects (option­al): Change in lifestyle of set­tling nomads
• Email to Allan Degen

CHARLENE MAKLEY (Reed Col­lege, Port­land, OR, USA)

• Fields of Inter­est: Transna­tion­al Chi­na and Tibet; eth­nic­i­ty and the state in mod­ern Chi­na; his­to­ri­og­ra­phy of Chi­nese bor­der regions; mod­ern Amdo Tibet; Amdo Tibetan film and lit­er­a­ture; oral his­to­ries of mod­ern Amdo; mod­ern Bud­dhist com­mu­ni­ties; socio-cul­tur­al trans­for­ma­tion; the­o­ries of cap­i­tal­ism, devel­op­ment and glob­al­iza­tion; lin­guis­tic anthro­pol­o­gy; eco­nom­ic anthro­pol­o­gy; gen­der stud­ies; race, eth­nic­i­ty and nation­alisms; fem­i­nist and post­colo­nial the­o­ry; anthro­pol­o­gy of reli­gion and rit­u­al; media and per­for­mance stud­ies; visu­al anthro­pol­o­gy; the­o­ries and prac­tices of translation
• Email to Char­lene Makley

HANUNG KIM (Korea Uni­ver­si­ty, Seoul, Korea)

• Research area/interests: His­to­ry of Sino-Tibetan rela­tions, His­tor­i­cal roles of reli­gious fig­ures from Amdo, Tibetan Bud­dhism in Amdo and Mon­go­lia, Biog­ra­phy and auto­bi­og­ra­phy in Tibetan literature
• Cur­rent projects: Work­ing on a book man­u­script on the top­ic of Sumpa Khen­po’s life and scholarship
• Email Hanung Kim

ANDREW GRANT (Uni­ver­si­ty of Tam­pa, USA)

• Fields of Inter­est: Urban­iza­tion, reli­gious and eth­nic iden­ti­ty, polit­i­cal geog­ra­phy, eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, eco-parks, car­tog­ra­phy, archi­tec­ture, Amdo, borderlands
• Email to Andrew Grant

TIMOTHY THURSTON (Uni­ver­si­ty of Leeds, Unit­ed Kingdom) 

• Fields of Inter­est: Oral and ver­nac­u­lar expres­sive prac­tices. intan­gi­ble cul­tur­al her­itage, cul­tur­al sustainability

NYINGBO GYAL (Uni­ver­si­ty of Oslo, Qing­hai Nation­al­i­ties Uni­ver­si­ty, Xining)

• Cur­rent projects:  a local deity cult in Reb­gong, Amdo: rit­u­als to Amye Taglung and reli­gious author­i­ty in Shetri, Gyalbo.(PhD thesis)
• Email to Nyingbo-Gyal

KUNG LING-WEI (Insti­tute of His­to­ry and Philol­o­gy, Acad­e­mia Sinica) 

• Fields of inter­est: Qing-Tibetan relations
• Cur­rent projects: Qing Map­ping of Tibet 
• Email to Kung Ling-wei

MARIE-PAULE HILLE (EHESS, Paris)

• Fields of inter­est: Reli­gious, eco­nom­ic, and polit­i­cal anthro­pol­o­gy; Sufism in North­west Chi­na, Xidaotang broth­er­hood; Mus­lim-Tibetan rela­tions in Amdo (past and present); Xidaotang trade activ­i­ties in Gan­su and Qing­hai (past and present); study of local autonomous powers
• Cur­rent projects: ​‘Pol­i­tics and the Divine: an Ethnog­ra­phy of the Xidaotang, a New Path of Chi­nese Islam (Gan­su region, 1890–2012)’
• Email to Marie-Paule Hille

BIANCA HORLEMANN (Inde­pen­dent Researcher)

• Fields of inter­est: His­to­ry of Sino-Tibetan rela­tions in Amdo (with a spe­cial focus on 11th/12th cen­tu­ry Tsong kha), Golog his­to­ry, Mus­lim-Tibetan rela­tions, his­to­ry of the Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary enter­prise in Amdo
• Cur­rent projects: West­ern and Chi­nese trav­el reports on Amdo; Mus­lim war­lords in 20th cen­tu­ry Amdo
• Email to Dr. Bian­ca Horlemann

RACHAEL M. GRIFFITHS (EPHE, Paris)

• Fields of inter­est: Tibetan life writ­ing, monas­tic and intel­lec­tu­al net­works, bor­der­lands, Sino-Tibetan-Mon­go­lian inter­face in the ear­ly mod­ern period
• Email to Rachael M. Grif­fiths 

LILIAN ISELIN (Uni­ver­si­ty of Bern)

• Fields of inter­est: Pas­toral soci­eties of Tibet: Amdo (Sichuan); mobil­i­ties of pas­toral­ists; social and spa­tial trans­for­ma­tions; devel­op­ment and infra­struc­ture, tech­nol­o­gy and society
• Cur­rent projects: Mobile Tech­nolo­gies and Nomadic Space: Mod­ern­iza­tion, Motor­iza­tion and Trans­for­ma­tions of space and place in Pas­toral­ist Amdo of Tibet (PhD, work­ing title)
• Email to Lil­ian Iselin

CAMERON FOLTZ (Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, New York)

• Fields of Inter­est: Tibetan polit­i­cal com­mu­ni­ties, pas­toral­ism, migra­tion, local deities, monas­tic insti­tu­tions, ter­ri­to­ri­al­i­ty, place-mak­ing, reli­gious net­works, trade networks
• Email to Cameron Foltz

LIN LUSHAN (Sichuan Uni­ver­si­ty, Chengdu)

• Fields of inter­est: Land use and envi­ron­ment; resource dis­tri­b­u­tion and capa­bil­i­ty; indige­nous knowl­edge of environment
• Cur­rent projects: Cli­mate Change and Tibetan Nomad Reset­tle­ment: A Case Study of Eco-migra­tion Project in the San Jiang Yuan (the Three Riv­er Head­wa­ters region, Qing­hai) (PhD thesis)
• Email to Lin Lushan

YANG MINGHONG (Yun­nan Uni­ver­si­ty, Kun­ming; Sichuan Uni­ver­si­ty, Chengdu)

• Fields of inter­est: Tibetan eco­nom­ic-social devel­op­ment and polit­i­cal issues in the con­text of PRC, Part­ner assis­tance to Tibet-Qing­hai, farmer’s liveli­hood in the Tibetan region, econ­o­my in Tibetan Bud­dhist monastery, eco­nom­ic mod­ern­iza­tion in Tibet.
• Cur­rent projects: Spir­i­tu­al cap­i­tal and econ­o­my in Tibetan Bud­dhist monastery; eco­nom­ic mod­ern­iza­tion in Tibetan Autonomous Region: 1951–2021.
• Email to Yang Minghong

JARMILA PTACKOVA (Ori­en­tal Insti­tute of the ASCR, Prague)

• Fields of inter­est: Impact of Chi­nese devel­op­ment pol­i­cy on pas­toral areas in Amdo. Inter-eth­nic and inter­cul­tur­al rela­tions in the Amdo area and the Sino-Tibetan frontier
• Cur­rent projects: Rule and Author­i­ty along the Sino-Tibetan Fron­tier — The Kokonor Region from 14th to 17th Century
• Email to Jarmi­la Ptackova

VALENTINA PUNZI (L’Ori­en­tale Uni­ver­si­ty, Naples, and Minzu Uni­ver­si­ty, Beijing)

• Fields of inter­est: Con­test­ed spaces, local pow­ers, nomads’ spa­tial eth­no-tax­on­o­my, topono­mas­tics, belief nar­ra­tives, ter­ri­to­r­i­al gods, post-1958 oral his­to­ry, and col­lec­tive memory
• Cur­rent projects: The Three Broth­ers of Amye Drakar. Sacral­ized land­scape and local iden­ti­ties in South­east­ern Amdo. (PhD thesis)
• Email to Valenti­na Punzi

MONA SCHREMPF (Inde­pen­dent researcher, affil­i­at­ed with ZAS, IAAW, HU)

• Fields of inter­est: social trans­for­ma­tions, Tibetan med­i­cine, trans­mis­sion and learn­ing, ecol­o­gy of med­i­c­i­nal herbs, rit­u­al heal­ing, Tibetan wom­en’s repro­duc­tive health, tourism, and social change, Bon com­mu­ni­ties, reli­gious and eth­nic revival
• Cur­rent projects: Transna­tion­al Tibetan Med­i­cine – For­mu­la­tion Regimes, Ther­a­peu­tic Net­works and Styles of Prac­tice between Chi­na and Europe (writ­ing up mono­graph)  The Cult of Ama Jomo (Bhutan/Arunachal Pradesh; new project)
• Email to Dr. Mona Schrempf

RAHEL TSERING (Hum­boldt Uni­ver­si­ty, Berlin)

• Fields of inter­est: Labrang, moun­tain cults, vil­lage life and fes­ti­vals, health and family
• Cur­rent projects: Mas­ter the­sis about the labtse rit­u­al of the Amnye Brag dmar in Fudi village
• Email to Rahel Tsering

BENNO WEINER (Carnegie Mel­lon Uni­ver­si­ty, Pittsburgh)

• Fields of inter­est: Eth­nop­o­l­i­tics, bor­der­lands, minori­ti­za­tion, empire and nation, colonialism
• Cur­rent projects: ​“Impe­r­i­al Bor­der­land to Social­ist State: Dis­in­te­gra­tion, Ter­ri­to­ri­al­iza­tion, and Minori­ti­za­tion on the Eth­nic Mar­gins of Mod­ern Chi­na;” ​“Mak­ing Minori­ties in Mod­ern China”
• Email to Ben­no Weiner

PALDEN GYAL (Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, New York City)

• Fields of inter­est: Bor­der­lands, state-build­ing, empire and colo­nial­ism, his­tor­i­cal climatology.
• Cur­rent projects: Dis­ser­ta­tion project focus­es on the his­to­ry of Qing impe­r­i­al encoun­ters with the Tibetan poli­ties of Gyel­rong in the Sichuan-Tibet fron­tier, span­ning the 18th to 20th centuries.
• Email to Palden Gyal

ADRIAN ZENZ (Vic­tims of Com­mu­nism Memo­r­i­al Foun­da­tion, Wash­ing­ton, D.C.) 

• Fields of inter­est: China’s eth­nic pol­i­cy; re-edu­ca­tion, secu­ri­ti­za­tion and forced labor in Xin­jiang; pub­lic recruit­ment, domes­tic secu­ri­ty, polic­ing and coer­cive pover­ty alle­vi­a­tion and employ­ment prac­tices in Tibetan regions with­in the PRC. See also https://victimsofcommunism.org/leader/adrian-zenz-phd/
• Cur­rent projects: The evo­lu­tion of re-edu­ca­tion in Xin­jiang. Tar­get­ed pover­ty alle­vi­a­tion and employ­ment poli­cies in var­i­ous Tibetan regions.
• Email to Adri­an Zenz

WENJING XU (Senck­en­berg Bio­di­ver­si­ty and Cli­mate Research Cen­tre, Frankfurt)

• Fields of Inter­est: Mobil­i­ty, Social-eco­log­i­cal sys­tems, Pas­toral­ism, Land use, Ecol­o­gy (wildlife and live­stock), Con­ser­va­tion, Rangelands
• Cur­rent projects: Land­scape frag­men­ta­tion and mobil­i­ties at the human-wildlife-live­stock inter­face in Yushu
• Email to Wen­jing Xu

UTE WALLENBÖCK (Masaryk Uni­ver­si­ty, Brno, Czech Republic) 

• Fields of Inter­est: Tibet-Mon­gol Inter­face, Mon­gols in Amdo, Cul­tur­al Trans­fer in Amdo
• Cur­rent projects: Research on Tibetan food 
• Email to Ute Wallenböck

TOMMASO PREVIATO (Acad­e­mia Sini­ca, Insti­tute of His­to­ry and Philol­o­gy, Taiwan) 

• Fields of Inter­est: Sufi hagiogra­phies, asceti­cism, con­cep­tu­al­iza­tions of death and after­life, Tibeto-Bur­man ori­gin myths, per­cep­tions of the environment

VALENTINA PUNZI (EPHE — CRCAO, Paris)

• Fields of Inter­est: ver­nac­u­lar reli­gion, col­lec­tive mem­o­ry, oral-writ­ten interface

ANDREW M. FISCHER ( Insti­tute of Social Stud­ies, Eras­mus Uni­ver­si­ty Rot­ter­dam, The Hague) 

• Fields of Inter­est: pop­u­la­tion and demog­ra­phy in Tibet, con­tem­po­rary social and eco­nom­ic change in Tibet (devel­op­ment), with a par­tic­u­lar focus on urban­iza­tion and employ­ment; Chi­nese region­al devel­op­ment poli­cies in Tibet, social pol­i­cy in Tibet
• Cur­rent projects (option­al): pop­u­la­tion and socio-eco­nom­ic changes in Tibetan areas of China
• Email to Andrew Fischer

NANCY E. LEVINE (Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Los Angeles) 

• Fields of Inter­est:  Fam­i­ly and social change, land use and urban­iza­tion, food prac­tices and health
• Email to Nan­cy Levine

EVELINE WASHUL (Indi­ana Uni­ver­si­ty, USA)

• Fields of Inter­est: Anthro­pol­o­gy of place mak­ing; his­to­ri­og­ra­phy of toponyms and bound­aries; his­to­ry of Tibeto-Mon­gol inter­face; genealo­gies; Golok local his­to­ries; crit­i­cal Indige­nous stud­ies the­o­ries of peo­ple­hood and belong­ing; urban­iza­tion and devel­op­ment; eth­nic­i­ty and state build­ing in mod­ern China
• Email to Eve­line Washul

DARIG THOKMAY (DPhil can­di­date, Uni­ver­si­ty of Oxford) 

• Fields of Inter­est: Inter­ac­tions and exchanges among Tibetans, Mon­gols, and Manchus
• Email to Darig Thokmay

DEMCHOK TASHI (Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, India) 

• Fields of Inter­est: Tibetan rare Man­u­scripts, clas­si­cal texts, schol­ar­ly works of Amdo scholars 

SARAH E. FRASER (Uni­ver­sität Hei­del­berg, Cen­ter for Asian and Tran­scul­tur­al Stud­ies, Insti­tute for East Asian Art His­to­ry, Germany) 

• Fields of Inter­est: Artis­tic Prac­tice, Intan­gi­ble and Tan­gi­ble Cul­tur­al Heritage
• Cur­rent projects: Trac­ing Roots of Paint­ing and Archi­tec­ture in Longy­ou Cor­ri­dor and Amdo
• Email to Sarah E. Fraser