Grant Category:	Fulbright-Nehru Senior Researcher
Field of Specialization:	Anthropology
Name:	Dr. Carole McGranahan
Official Address:	Department of Anthropology College of Arts and Sciences University of Colorado-Boulder Boulder, Colorado
Indian Host Institution:	Library of Tibetan Works and Archives Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh
Duration of Grant & Start Date :	Duration: 7 months January 2012

Brief Bio:

Tibetans in India are often referred to as the world's "most successful" refugee community. However, Tibetans' political status in India ironically challenges global expectations of refugees. For fifty years, the Government of India and the Dalai Lama's Tibetan Government-in-Exile have negotiated refugee status rather than citizenship for Tibetans. As a result, Tibetans defy global initiatives designed to facilitate either refugees' return to their country of origin or naturalization in their host countries. As a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar Dr. McGranahan will conduct a historical study of exile debates over citizenship paired with an ethnographic study of everyday Tibetan practices of political subjectivity.