Graduate Student Winter 2022
Dawa Lokyitsang (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology in Progress)
Dawa Lokyitsang is a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½-American Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Anthropology. Her dissertation is about the establishment of sovereignty in exile by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ refugee collective following China’s invasion of Tibet in 1959. She looks specifically at the development of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ educational institutions and the making of kinship in India as avenues for securing ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ continuity and futurity as the invasion transitioned into a full-scale settler colonial occupation. As such, her scholarship sits at the intersection of Asian imperial-colonialisms, anti-colonial nationalisms, and Indigenous sovereign-futurisms.