Yedzin Tobgay
PhD
Anthropology
Yedzin Tobgay is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne's School of Social and Political Sciences. She completed Bachelor of Arts in Intelligence Studies and Political Science from Mercyhurst University, after which she graduated with an MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies. Working across sectors and disciplines, Yedzin previously worked with multiple Bhutanese government institutions and agencies in varying capacities as a gender/social consultant. She also served as the youngest faculty member of the Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan's leading tertiary institute.
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Thesis
Articulating the Role of Land in Relation to Rural Bhutanese Women
Yedzin's doctoral project explores the evolving role of land in her maternal village Haa, in rural Western Bhutan, where matrilineal land inheritance has long been the social norm. Employing decoloniality, indigeneity, and feminist anthropology, she seeks to understand what land means to rural women, how this meaning making and engagement with land undergoes changes and evolution, and how these processes engender new or shifting gender roles.