Home to the Modern Tibetan Studies Program, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute hosts year-round public events and scholarly workshops about the history, politics, economy, and culture of Inner Asia. Additionally, the Institute supports undergraduate and graduate research as well as publications about the region. Through its MARSEA program, the Institute also provides graduate students the opportunity to take courses on a wide variety of topics concerning Inner Asia.
Please see our Curriculum Resources page, which provides materials and readings on teaching Inner Asia using digital resources and interdisciplinary approaches.
Faculty Regional Specialists
Qin Gao Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Columbia School of Social Work.
Research Interests: Poverty, inequality, social policies, and economic and subjective well-being in China and their international comparisons; International social and economic development; International program and impact evaluation; Rural-to-urban migration in China and Asian American immigrants
Meg McLagan Visiting Professor of Professional Practice, Barnard College
Research Interests: Tibetan Film Studies
James D. Seymour Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Politics of the PRC, especially Tibet and the northwest; comparative human rights
Gray Tuttle Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies
Research Interests: Modern Tibetan history; Manchu Qing Empire frontiers; role of Tibetan Buddhism in Sino-Tibetan relations Eveline Washul Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Director, Modern Tibetan Studies Program
Research Interests: Historical geographies of Tibet; Tibetan genealogies; anthropology of space and place; urbanization on the Tibetan Plateau