Dhardon Sharling
Lecturer
Interests
My interdisciplinary approach to scholarship examines how human communication practices—especially those shaped by emerging media—advance social change, with particular attention to gender and climate justice. Drawing on intersections among communication studies, new media, critical feminist theory, cultural anthropology, and lived experience, I seek to generate knowledge that challenges and intervenes in systemic structures of power and injustice.
Education
PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
MSc, University of Edinburgh
MA, Madras University, India
Courses Taught
COMM 221: Communication for Sustaining Social Change
COMM 260: Public Speaking
COMM 375: Writing as Communication
Publications
Sharling, D. (2025). Identity, resilience, mobilisation, and homeland relations: the shaping of Tibetan diaspora. South Asian Diaspora, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2025.2560712
Sharling, T. D. (2022). Theorizing a female Dalai Lama: An intersectional tool for feminisms. Anthropology of Consciousness, 33(1), 71–87. https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.12146
Sharling, T. D. (2021). Finding hope in the darkest of days and focus in the brightest: The Dalai Lama’s approach to promoting human values. Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre, 9(2).
Mijares, S., Rafea, A., Sharling, T. D., Amponsem, J., & Mallory, M. (2020). The Power of the Feminine: Facing Shadow, Evoking Light. Egypt: The Human Foundation.
Sharling, T. D. (2013). Tibetan women: Devotedly defiant. In N. Angha, S. G. Mijares, & A. R. Rāfiʻ (Eds.), A Force Such As the World Has Never Known: Women Creating Change (pp. 211–218). Toronto, Canada: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Current Projects
Co-investigator of a book project on Democracy in Exile
Core organizing committee member for Year of Compassion: A Massachusetts Tribute to the Dalai Lama at 90
Founding Director of An Interconnected Planet: Toward a Conscious, Responsible, and Sustainable Humanity