معرفی
Yasmin Cho is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University since 2016. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University (2015) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan prior to joining Columbia.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, 2015
Research Interests:
Her work focuses on materiality, mobilities, gender, space, and building practices, particularly within the context of the anthropology of architecture and religion. She specializes in Tibetan Buddhist revivals and the lived experiences of Buddhist nuns in China, exemplified by her current book project on Yachen Gar, a major Buddhist encampment in Sichuan province. This project examines how young nuns negotiate political and spatial dynamics through everyday practices like meditation, construction, and movement.
Awards/Grants: None explicitly listed in the provided text.
Advising & Labs: No students or lab affiliations mentioned. Her research emphasizes fieldwork in Tibetan communities and collaborative ethnographic methods.
