Gyatso Marnyi

Gyatso Marnyi is a historian of empires and frontiers in East Asia. Combining textual sources with ethnographic fieldwork, his research focuses on the interaction and exchange between China and Inner Asia from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. He is currently working on a book project that examines the dispossession of Tibetans, the displacement of Chinese, and the segregation of Muslims along with China’s transition from empire to nation-state in the Northwest between 1862 and 1962. He is also editing a book that explores how different ethnic groups along the rivers of the eastern Tibetan Plateau have adapted to, negotiated with, transformed, and interpreted their natural surroundings.

Gyatso received his PhD in Chinese Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2020). He holds an MA in Buddhist Studies from Hong Kong University (2014), and a BA in Chinese Classical Philology from Nanjing Normal University (2012). Before coming to Yale, Gyatso was appointed as Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University.