MTSP Welcomes Postdoctoral Fellow, Tashi Dekyid Monet (2025-2026)
On September 1, the Modern Tibetan Studies program will welcome postdoctoral fellow, Tashi Dekyid Monet. Dr. Monet (མོ་ངེ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་སྐྱིད།) is a Tibetan scholar, writer, and translator whose work explores Indigenous Land-based traditions, multispecies justice, and the intersections of literature, spirituality, and the environment. Born and raised in eastern Tibet, she earned her B.A. in Tibetan Literature from Minzu University of China and her Ph.D. in Education from the University of Virginia (2024). Her research bridges literacies of Tibetan Land, Buddhist sacred geography, Indigenous theories of knowledge in relationship to Land and places, and global decolonial thought.
Her publications include “Translating the Tibetan Lifeworld: An Ontological Bridge or Erasure,” “Rejoicing in Reciprocity,” and the forthcoming trilingual anthology Hope that Burns, Friendship that Heals: An Anthology by Tibetan Women Writers. She has authored three Tibetan-language children’s books and translated works by Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Margaret Atwood into Tibetan.
Dr. Monet will co-lead this year the Henry Luce Foundation-funded project “Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas” at Columbia University. Her ongoing projects include adapting her dissertation into a book manuscript, developing Indigenous Land education models for Tibetan youth, and co-designing contemplative practices from Buddhist elemental and Indigenous Land-based traditions. Columbia students can now register for her fall course, "Climate Change: The Tibetan Plateau as a Case Study."
