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Carole McGranahan is Professor in, and Chair of, the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and a scholar of contemporary Tibet and the Himalayas. She is author of “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), and editor of “Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment” (2020). She is currently co-editing “The Tibet Reader,” a volume on ethics and ethnography, and finishing a book about theoretical storytelling. Dr. McGranahan has dedicated the entirety of her research career to the Tibetan community, including anthropological and historical research with veterans of the Tibetan Chushi Gangdrug citizens’ army who fought to defend the Dalai Lama and Tibet against the Chinese PLA, and with retired CIA officers who worked on the Tibet project at Camp Hale.