CV

Education

since 2018

Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Science and Technology at James Madison University

2017

PhD, Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
Dissertation: Border Corridors: Roads, Trade, Aid and the Geopolitics of State-making between Nepal and China. Committee: Emily Yeh (Chair), John O’Loughlin, Tim Oakes, Joe Bryan, Tina Harris

2011

MALD, International Relations, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Thesis: The Himalaya Complex: Roads and Conflict in High Asia Committee: Andrew Hess (Chair), Eileen Babbitt, John Curtis Perry, Alan Henrikson

2000

BA, Religion, Middlebury College
Thesis: Chakrasamvara Tradition: Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Tantra in India and Tibet Advisor: William Waldron

Grants and Fellowships

2017

Marie S Curie Action Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF-2016) (€171,460) European Commission Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

2016

Summer Dissertation Writing Fellowship ($6000) Graduate School, University of Colorado Boulder

2014

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad ($20,108)
US Department of Education

2014

International Dissertation Research Fellowship ($20,000)
Andrew Mellon Foundation, Social Science Research Council

2014

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Chinese) ($7,500) Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado Boulder

2013

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Hindi) ($33,000)
Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado Boulder

2013

Kathryn W. Davis Fellowship for Peace ($10,000 declined)
Middlebury College Chinese Language School

2009-11

Bosworth/Board of Overseers Fellowship ($45,000)
The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Service and Extracurricular Activities

2015-present

Co-founder/Co-director, Rasuwa Relief volunteer humanitarian aid organization 2015-present

2015-present

Coordinating Member, Nepal Research Collective

2014-present

Executive Council Member, Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

2012-present

Co-director/Co-founder, Tibetan-Himalayan Studies Working Group, CU-Boulder

October 2014

Volunteer, Tsadra Foundation Translation and Transmission Conference

2010-2011

Director, Southwest-Central Asia-Caucasus Forum, The Fletcher School

2005-present

Wilderness First Responder (WFR), former Wilderness Emergency Technician

1997-2000

Guide, Middlebury Mountain Club, Middlebury College