Tenzin (Tendor) Dorjee is a doctoral candidate in political science at Columbia University. He is also a Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow at the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (2023-2024) and was the Inaugural Stephanie G. Neuman Fellow (2021-2022) at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. His research examines the influence of religious beliefs on political preferences and conflict behavior, and the links between transnational repression and political participation. He received a B.A. in international relations from Brown University and an M.A. in political science from Columbia University. Before joining the Ph.D. program, he worked at the National Endowment for Democracy, Students for a Free Tibet, and Tibet Action Institute. His research and writings have been published by the Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, Comparative Education, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, the Journal of Democracy, China Brief, and Asia Unbound.
