Author: Carole McGranahan

Carole McGranahan is an anthropologist and historian of Tibet at the University of Colorado. She is author of Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War (Duke University Press, 2010), and is currently working on projects about empire, refugee citizenship, storytelling, the CIA, and the Pangdatsang family.

Carole McGranahan

Carole McGranahan is an anthropologist and historian of Tibet at the University of Colorado. She is author of Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War (Duke University Press, 2010), and is currently working on projects about empire, refugee citizenship, storytelling, the CIA, and the Pangdatsang family.

Essay One-Shots

Yes, You Can: Being an Academic and a Mother

March, 2017 / By Carole McGranahan

Can one be an academic and a mother? Of course. Of course you can, and yet, this question is a […]

Conversation One-Shots

REDUX: What does Humanity look like? Ethnography of the CIA – with Carole McGranahan

June, 2015 / By Miia Halme-Tuomisaari and Carole McGranahan

It has been a while since I have last encountered her – I wonder if I will still recognize her.

Essay One-Shots

“I love polyandry, yo”: Tibetan refugee citizenship and the politics of culture

October, 2014 / By Carole McGranahan

Toronto, summer 2012, three of us having lunch at an Indian restaurant downtown—me and two young Tibetan friends. We were