Rate My Professor Yosay Wangdi

Wangdi joined Grand Valley State University as Assistant Professor of History in August 2003, advancing to Associate Professor and then full Professor. She teaches World History, History of India, Buddhism in East Asian Religions, and Tibet and the Himalayan World. Her research interests include South Asia, Tibet, history of India, religion, environmental history, China, and Buddhism. Key publications feature her translation of Dhondup Gyal’s “Waterfall of Youth” in Studies on Asia, Vol. 3, Issue 2 (2005); a review of Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal (2006); the chapter “ ‘Displaced People’ Adjusting to New Cultural Vocabulary: Tibetan Immigrants in North America” in Emerging Voices: Experiences of Underrepresented Asian Americans, edited by Huping Ling (2008); and co-editing The Role of Agency and Memory in Historical Understanding with Gordon Andrews (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). In summer 2004, she received research grants from GVSU’s Department of Research and Development and International Office. She serves on the Faculty Advisory Board of the Grand Valley Journal of History and was co-chair of the Asian Faculty and Staff Association.