Emily Yeh

Professor of Geography • 2024 Guggenheim Fellow • College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction • Nature/society geography; political ecology; cultural politics; development; Tibet; China • Faculty Affiliate: Center for Asian Studies, CNAIS, C3BC • Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2003 • Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 2023-24

Human Geography • Environment-Society

emily.yeh@colorado.edu

303-492-5438, GUGG 103A

Tibet Himalaya Initiative

Research Interests

My main research interests are on questions of power, political economy, and cultural politics in the nature-society relationship. Using primarily ethnographic methods, I have conducted research on property rights, natural resource conflicts, environmental history, development and landscape transformation, grassland management and environmental policies, and emerging environmentalisms in Tibetan areas of China. In addition, I have also worked on the politics of identity and race in the Tibetan diaspora, and on several NSF-funded interdisciplinary, collaborative projects on putative causes of rangeland degradation and vulnerability to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau. Broader research and teaching interests include transnational conservation, critical development studies, the relationship between nature, territory, and the nation, and environmental justice. My regional expertise is in China, Tibet, and the Himalayas.

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