Carole McGranahan is a professor of anthropology and history at the University of Colorado, USA. Her research is about 20th and 21st Tibet, including the Chushi Gangdrug resistance army; American, British, and Chinese empires in Tibet; self-immolation inside Tibet; and asylum, refusal, and refugee citizenship in the Tibetan diaspora (Canada, India, Nepal, USA). She is author of numerous books and articles, including Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War (2010), co-editor of Imperial Formations (2007) and Ethnographies of U.S. Empire (2018), editor ofWriting Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment(2020), and co-editor of the forthcoming The Tibet Reader.