Dorjee, Tenzin

Associate Professor of Human Communication Studies

Human Communication Studies

Biography:

Tenzin Dorjee (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is associate professor of human communication studies at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). His primary teaching and research interests are in intergroup, intercultural, intergenerational communication, identity issues, peace building, and conflict resolution. He has authored and co-authored peer-reviewed articles and chapters on Tibetan culture, identity, and communication, nonviolence and middle way approaches to Sino-Tibetan conflict, intergenerational communication context and others. He was awarded the Faculty Teacher-Scholar Award in 2011, Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activities in 2013, annual Author Award in 2014, and Faculty Recognition: Extraordinary and Sustained Service in 2015 by Cal State Fullerton. He is also a published author of articles and translated works of Tibetan Buddhism and culture into English. He is a prominent native translator of Tibetan Buddhism and translated for many pre-eminent Tibetan Buddhist masters, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Eminence Lati Rinpoche. He had the great honor to be guest translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Hawaii in April 2012. He served as a member-at –large in the Executive Council of the Western States Communication Association (WSCA), chair of WSCA’s Distinguished Teaching Award Committee and a member of WSCA’s Model Program Award Committee (2012-2014). In the summer of 2013, he volunteered over two months at the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala and also gave series of invited talks on a wide range of topics, such as Tibetan culture and identity, teaching pedagogy, translation methodology and social science research methodology at the Tibet Policy Institute, CTA Staff, Tibetan Library, TCV, Institute of Buddhist Dialectics and College of Higher Tibetan Studies Sarah. He also serves on many university, college and department committees at Cal State Fullerton.

Areas of Knowledge:

• Intercultural Communication
• Peace and Conflict Management
• Tibetan Language, Culture, and Buddhism

Subject(s):

• Culture -- Diversity
• Interpersonal Skills
• Speech Communication

Language(s):

• Hindi

Other Languages:

Tibetan Language

Region(s):

• Asia

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