Emily T. Yeh, Professor of Geography at CU Boulder, conducts research on nature-society relations in Tibetan parts of the PRC, including projects on conflicts over access to natural resources, the relationship between ideologies of nature and nation, the political ecology of pastoral environment and development policies, vulnerability of Tibetan herders to climate change, and emerging environmental subjectivities. Emily鈥檚 book Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development (Cornell University Press, 2013), which explores the intersection of political economy and cultural politics of development as a project of state territorialization, was awarded the 2015 E. Gene Smith Prize for best book on Inner Asia from the Association of Asian Studies. It was also named a 鈥渂est book of 2014鈥� by Foreign Affairs for the Asia/Pacific region. She is also co-editor with Chris Coggins of Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, and with Kevin O鈥橞rien and Ye Jingzhong of Rural Politics in Contemporary China.