Riga Shakya is a historian of empire and colonialism in Asia, serving as Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Humanities and Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, where he has also taught in the Columbia Core Curriculum. His work centers on the connected histories of Tibet, China, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan world, tracing the fraught entanglements between pre-colonial knowledge systems and colonial modernity. Riga is currently working on his first book, Mirrors of History: The Poetics of Tibetan Kingship in the Time of Empire, and received his PhD in Tibetan and late imperial Chinese history from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia. He is managing editor of the Journal of Tibetan Literature, and an experienced literary translator and film producer, with projects featured at festivals including TIFF, SXSW, and Karlovy Vary.
Riga Shakya
