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Welcome! ​

 

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.

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The Johns Hopkins SAIS, The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies

https://www.reischauercenter.org/

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Gandantegchlen Monastery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, August 2024

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