Trine Brox is Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She studied Social Science at the University of Tromsø and Tibetology at the University of Copenhagen, where she received her Ph.D. Her academic focuses are contemporaneous issues in Tibet and the Tibetan diaspora regarding the development of democracy, Tibetan elites in the PRC, exile governance, political movements, the configuration of religion and politics, conceptual history, and the multi-layered process of translation within and between cultures.