His areas of specialization include multicultural education, curriculum development, and teacher education. He edited “Schooling & Tibetan Culture in Transnational Context” a monograph, published by the University of California, Irvine, in 2010.Recently, he was awarded a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar Award to India for the year 2011-2012 to examine the challenges associated with an abrupt shift in the medium of instruction from native Tibetan (Heritage language) to English language for 6th grade Tibetan Children.