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Bolor Lkhaajav is an international relations researcher and writer specializing in Mongolia, Northeast, and East Asia. Bolor’s research interests include political, diplomatic, and cultural history, foreign policy and security, small-state actors, business and investment, and contemporary East Asian societies. Her research and commentaries have appeared in a range of international publications in multiple languages. Bolor is a higher education advocate and Founder, Managing Director for a Mentorship Program. Bolor graduated from Roosevelt University and holds master's degree in Asia-Pacific Studies from the University of San Francisco.
She is writing a book on Mongolia's international affairs, grand strategy, and foreign policy.Bolor recently translated and published No Use of Force- The End of the Marxist Era in Mongolia: The Memoirs of Jambyn Batmonkh. Contact the Mongolia Society at monsoc@iu.edu to purchase the book.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS
2019 France-Berkeley Fund, University of California at Berkeley, CA
2018 Certificate of Excellency in University and Program Services, University of San Francisco
2018 Graduate Student Research Fellowship Grant to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, East-West Center
2017 Graduate Student Research Fellowship Grant
2017 Merit-based "Imamura Fellowship, University of San Francisco
2017 Graduate Student Research Fellowship at The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College, previously at USF, San Francisco, CA
2016 First-Year Scholarship, University of San Francisco
2011 Vice President of Historical Society, Roosevelt University
CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS
2025 "Mongolia's Diplomacy and Development: Small Power Balancing in a Divided World", Johns Hopkins, School of Advanced International Studies, The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Washington, D.C.
2024 "Studying in the U.S. on Scholarship" Consulate of Mongolia in Chicago, Public Lecture Series, Webinar.
2021 "The Future of Mongolia's Foreign Policy: Opportunities and Challenges"
American Center for Mongolian Studies Speaker Series, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
2019 "Dilemmas of the Sacred Land: Ovoo and Its Environment" at the "Points of Transition: Ovoo
and the Ritual Remaking of Religious, Ecological, and Historical Politics in Inner Asia."
University of California, Berkeley.
2018 "The Significant of Mongolia's Foreign Policy in the Asia-Pacific Apparatus." East West
Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI.
2017 "Mongolia's Third Neighbor Foreign Policy," 11th International Conference of Mongolian
Studies, Embassy of Mongolia, Washington D.C.
LATEST EVENT
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The Johns Hopkins SAIS, The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies
