Stacey Van Vleet

Stacey Van Vleet is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in the history of Tibet and Inner Asia. Her research explores how Tibetan historiography intersects with modern transformations in knowledge, economy, and governance, particularly through the lens of medical institutions during the Qing Empire and early 20th-century state-building projects.

• Previous Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington.
• Experience: Two decades of living, studying, and working in the Tibetan Buddhist world.

Research Focus spans Sino-Tibetan relations, history of medicine, religion and secularism, borderlands, and manuscript/print culture. Her forthcoming book, The World the Medicine Buddha Built, analyzes Tibetan medical networks as tools of imperial governance and national identity formation.

Recent Publications address intersections of medical reform, manuscript traditions, military health, and astrology in Tibet's socio-political evolution. Her work engages interdisciplinary methodologies to map knowledge systems across empires.

Scientific Awards

• Society of Hellman Fellows award (2023-2024)
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellow (2018-2019)
• D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2019)
• Harvard University Fellow (2018-2019)