Tashi Rabgey

Tashi Rabgey is a Research Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Her main research focuses on territorial politics, statehood, and late authoritarianism, based on two decades of field studies in Tibet and China. She now leads a project on legal pluralism and constitutional transitions in regional autonomies and special status arrangements within federal and asymmetric states. A former co-director of the University of Virginia Tibet Center, she holds a PhD from Harvard and law degrees from Oxford and Cambridge. She has served as a visiting professor at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (Iraq) and will be based at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in fall 2025.