Congratulations to Anthropology Alumna, Bendi Tso (Ph.D. 2023) who began a post doctoral fellowship with Stanford University in 2024. Tso is part of Stanfords Global Studies Centre for East Asian Studies.
As a sociocultural anthropologist working on borderlands, nationalism, ethnicity, and oral traditions in China, Tso’s scholarship draws on ethnographic approaches to study China’s ethnic minorities beyond the dominant lens of ethnicity.
She is currently working on a book project that examines the negotiation of essentialized Tibetanness among disparate Tibetan subgroups on the Sino-Tibetan borderland characterized by ambiguity and transition.
