Carole泭McGranahan

  • Professor
  • ANTHROPOLOGY
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HALE 362

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Education

Ph.D., Anthropology and History, 勛圖厙 of Michigan, 2001
M.A., Anthropology, 勛圖厙 of Michigan, 1999
B.A., Anthropology, Cognate 勛圖厙, 1991 (with honors)

Regional and Thematic Interests

Tibet and the Himalayas, feminist anthropology, history and memory, and contemporary social theory

Profile

I am a cultural anthropologist and historian specializing in contemporary Tibet. My research focuses on issues of colonialism and empire, history and memory, power and politics, refugees and citizenship, nationalism, senses of belonging, gender, war, and anthropology as theoretical storytelling. Since 1994, I have conducted research in Tibetan refugee communities in India and Nepal on the history and politics of the guerilla army泭Chushi Gangdrug, culminating in my book泭Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Histories of a Forgotten War泭(Duke 勛圖厙 Press, 2010). Thinking of 20th-21st century Tibetan histories and experiences as imperial in a global sense is a key part of my work in relation to the CIA, British India, and the Peoples Republic of China. My work on empire beyond Europe can be found in Imperial Formations (2007, co-edited with Ann Stoler and Peter Perdue), and in Ethnographies of U.S. Empire (2018, co-edited with John Collins). Currently, I am completing a book about the Pangdatsang family, Tibet, and British India in the first half of the 20th century, and finishing a decade of research in France, India, Nepal, New York City, Switzerland, and Toronto titled "Refugee Citizenship: Asylum, Refusal, and Political Subjectivity in the Tibetan Diaspora." I also write about ethnography, pedagogy, and am the editor of Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment (2020, Duke 勛圖厙 Press.)

Selected Publications

  • 2023. "." American Ethnologist, 49: 289-301.
  • 2022. "," Anthropology Now,泭14:1-2,泭146-148.
  • 2022 "," Anthropology Now,泭14:1-2,泭133-135.
  • 2020泭Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment.泭Duke 勛圖厙 Press.
  • 2019泭Chinese Settler Colonialism: Empire and Life in the Tibetan Borderlands. In St矇phane Gros, ed.,泭Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands,泭Amsterdam: Amsterdam 勛圖厙 Press, pp泭 517-540.
  • 2019 A Presidential Archive of Lies: Racism, Twitter, and a History of the Present, International Journal of Communication 13, 2019, pp. 3164-3182.
  • 2018 Ethnographies of U.S. Empire. Co-edited with John Collins. Duke 勛圖厙 Press.
  • 2018 Refusal as Political Practice: Citizenship, Sovereignty, and Tibetan Refugee Status, American Ethnologist 45(3), 2018, pp. 367-379.
  • 2018 Ethnography Beyond Method: The Importance of an Ethnographic Sensibility, SITES: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies 15(1), 2018, pp. 1-10.
  • 2017 An Anthropology of Lying: Trump and the Political Sociality of Moral Outrage, special forum on the presidential election, American Ethnologist 44(2), pp. 243-248.
  • 2017 Imperial but Not Colonial: British India, Archival Truths, and the Case of the Naughty Tibetans.泭Comparative Studies in Society and History 59(1), pp. 68-95.
  • 2016泭 Theorizing Refusal: An Introduction. Cultural Anthropology 31(3), pp. 319-325.
  • 2016泭 泭Refusal and the Gift of Citizenship. Cultural Anthropology 31(3), pp. 334-341.
  • 2014泭 What Is Ethnography?: Teaching Ethnographic Sensibilities without Fieldwork. Teaching Anthropology 4, pp. 22-36.
  • 2012 An Anthropologist in Political Asylum Court, Part I and Anthropology and the Truths of Political Asylum, Part II,泭Anthropology News,泭March and April.泭PDF
  • 2012 Mao in Tibetan Disguise: History, Ethnographic Theory, and Excess.泭HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory泭2(1): 213-245.泭 PDF
  • 2012泭 in泭Self-Immolation as Protest in Tibet.泭Special issue of泭Cultural Anthropology.
  • 2012泭泭 .泭Special issue of泭Cultural Anthropology.泭Co-edited with Ralph Litzinger.
  • 2010泭 Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War.泭Duke 勛圖厙 Press.
  • 2010泭 Narrative Dispossession: Tibet and the Gendered Logics of Historical Possibility,泭Comparative Studies in Society and History泭52(4), pp. 768-797.泭 PDF
  • 2007泭 Imperial Formations. Co-edited with Ann Stoler and Peter Perdue. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.
  • 2007泭 Introduction: Refiguring Imperial Terrains, with Ann Stoler, in泭Imperial Formations,泭Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, pp. 3-47.泭 PDF
  • 2007泭 Empire Out-of-Bounds: Tibet in the Era of Decolonization, in泭Imperial Formations,泭Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, pp. 187-227. 泭PDF
  • 2006泭 Public Anthropology.泭Guest Editor of Special Issue of泭India Review泭5(3-4).泭 PDF
  • 2006泭 Tibets Cold War: The CIA and the Chushi Gangdrug Resistance, 1956-1974,泭Journal of Cold War Studies泭8(3), pp. 102-130.泭 PDF
  • 2005泭 In Rapgas Library: The Texts and Times of a Rebel Tibetan Intellectual,泭Les Cahiers dExtreme-Asie泭15, special issue on Tibet, pp. 225-276.泭PDF
  • 2005泭 Truth, Fear, and Lies: Exile Politics and Arrested Histories of the Tibetan泭Resistance,泭Cultural Anthropology泭20(4),泭pp. 570-600.泭 PDF
  • 2003泭 From Simla to Rongbatsa: The British and the Modern Boundaries of Tibet,泭The Tibet Journal泭28(4), pp. 39-60.泭PDF
  • 2003泭 Kashmir and Tibet: Comparing Conflicts, States, and Solutions,泭India Review泭2(3), pp. 145-180.
  • 2002泭 Sa sPang mda gNam sPang mda:泭Murder, History, and Social Politics in泭1920s泭Lhasa, in Lawrence Epstein, ed.,泭Khams pa Local Histories: Visions of People,泭Place, and Authority,泭Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 103-126. 泭PDF
  • 1996泭 Miss Tibet, or Tibet Misrepresented?: The Trope of Woman-as-Nation in the泭Struggle for Tibet, in Colleen Ballerino Cohen et al., eds.,泭Beauty Queens on the泭Global Stage: Gender, Contests, and Power,泭New York: Routledge, 1996, pp. 161-184.泭PDF