Biography

Prof. (Dr.) Ugyan Choedup, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School. Ugyan Choedup is a historian of modern Tibet and China, focusing on questions of identity, nationalism, state formation, democratisation, and colonial modernity. Ugyan completed his schooling in Tibetan refugee schools in India and earned his M.Phil. degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He received his PhD in history from Pennsylvania State University, where his doctoral research was supported by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and the Dalai Lama Foundation.

Following his doctoral studies, Ugyan served as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Penn State for one year. He subsequently spent two years as a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University. In addition to his academic research, he co-hosts Khyeltam, a Tibetan-language podcast exploring ideas, histories, and current affairs.