• Devendra Kumar & Wen-Tsuan Tsai, “Disciplining Cadre Families: How the Chinese Communist Party is Forging Its Political Ecology,” The China Review [Revise and resubmit].
• James Leibold & Devendra Kumar, “Vanishing Quotas: Tibetan Political Disenfranchisement in Xi Jinping’s New Era of Han-centrism,” The China Journal 94:2 (July 2025): 1–29.
• Devendra Kumar, “BRICS Expansion: China–India Relations and Contentions over its Role,” Asian Affairs 57:1 (2025): 4–32.

• Japneet Kaur, Devendra Kumar & Jabin T. Jacob, “Beyond the Military Prism: China’s Development Objectives in Xiaokang Villages in Tibet Autonomous Region,” Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies, Shiv Nadar University, Occasional Paper No. 4 (2025): 1–21. https://archive.vn/rDLUC

Work in Progress (Papers):

• “Long Shadow of Cultural Revolution: Leadership Shifts and China’s Tibet Policy in the Post-1990s Period.”
• with James Leibold, “Writing Belonging: Han Cadre Memoirs and the Politics of Frontier Memory in Tibet.”
• with Wen-Tsuan Tsai, “Paired-up Assistance and Spatial Politics in Contemporary China.”

• Book monograph (in progress): Tibet Aid Program and China’s Governance in its Himalayan Borderlands.
• Devendra Kumar, Japneet Kaur & Jabin T. Jacob, “Boosting Infrastructural Power: How Xiaokang Villages Enhance Communist Party’s Capacity and Control in India–Tibet Borderlands,” a collaborative report for the Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies and the National Bureau of Asian Research.

• Devendra Kumar, “Chinese Influence Operations and Tibetan Diaspora in India and Nepal,” in How China Engages South Asia: In the Open and Behind the Scenes, eds. Constantino Xavier & Jabin Jacob (New Delhi: Social and Economic Progress, 2025), 147–160.

Book Reviews:

• Review of Art of Political Control in China by Daniel Mattingly, China Report 57, No. 1 (2021): 244–245.
• Review of China’s Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy by Dylan Loh, China Report 60, No. 4 (2024): 458–460.

• Devendra Kumar, “Tibet-Aid Program at 30: Driving Tibet’s Development in Xi’s ‘New Era,’” China Brief, Vol. 24, Issue 22 (2025). https://jamestown.org/tibet-aid-program-at-30-driving-tibets-development-in-xis-new-era/
• Devendra Kumar, “Economic and Technological Zones: Economic Strategy in the Tibet Autonomous Region,” China Brief, Vol. 24, Issue 15 (2024). https://jamestown.org/economic-and-technological-zones-economic-strategy-in-the-tibet-autonomous-region/

Junior Research Fellow (JRF), University Grants Commission, Delhi (2016-2022).

Visiting Scholar, Tsinghua University Beijing (2019-2020) under Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India and China Scholarship Council fellowship program

Conference Presentations:

• “Writing Belonging: Han Cadre Memoirs and the Politics of Frontier Memory in Tibet,” Australian National University Annual Forum on China, Canberra (August 11–13, 2026).
• “Long Shadow of Cultural Revolution: Leadership Shifts and China’s Tibet Policy in the 1990s,” China’s Domestic Governance, Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies, Institute of Chinese Studies, and MIT Pune, at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi (August 24–29, 2025).
• “Enforcing Xi Jinping Thought: From Training to Campaigns,” Second Global Conference on New Sinology, Organization for Research on China and Asia (ORCA), New Delhi (September 26–27, 2024).
• “Agriculture Development and Reforestation in Ngari Prefecture in Western Tibet,” The High Himalaya and Environmental Justice, Tibet House, New Delhi (September 26–27, 2024).
• “Urbanization in China’s Borderlands: A Case of Shiquanhe in Ngari Prefecture and Bayi District in Nyingchi City in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR),” workshop by the R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies (ICAS) and Shiv Nadar University, Delhi (February 19, 2024).
• “Recent Shifts in Minority Political Representation in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR),” workshop on Evolving a Himalayan Policy for India: Infrastructure, States, Communities, and Ecologies in the Eastern Himalayas, Sikkim University, Gangtok (February 7–8, 2024).
• “Administrative, Economic, and Social Aspects of the National Park System in China: The State–Community Dynamics,” Studying Things Chinese: Challenges and Opportunities, Chinese Studies Association of Australia, University of Sydney (December 7–9, 2023).
• “Chinese State’s Deployment of Technology for Security Responses in Tibet: A Study of Prefecture-Level Budgets for Internal Security during Xi Jinping’s Tenure,” 16th All India China Studies Conference, University of Hyderabad (November 17–19, 2023).
• “Geopolitics and Multilateralism: Can AIIB be a Model for South Asia–China Cooperation?” 3rd Tsinghua Area Studies Conference, Tsinghua University, Beijing (July 3–5, 2023).

Invited Talks and Lectures:

• “China’s Tibet Policy in Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era,’” Center for China Studies, Ashoka University, Sonepat (September 30, 2025).
• “Stabilizing Tibet: Cadre Management and China’s Governance Strategy in Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era,’” REMOTE XUAR Project lecture series, hosted by Palacký University Olomouc, University of Würzburg, and Université libre de Bruxelles (September 2, 2025).
• “Pitfalls of Researching China from a Distance,” special lecture at the Network for Advanced Study of China (NASC) Fellowship Conference, Takshashila Institution, Bangalore (March 29–31, 2024).
• “China and South Asia,” invited lecture, Vienna School of International Studies, Online (March 17, 2023).

• Huayu Enrichment Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2026).
• General Visiting Scholar, China Scholarship Council (2019–2020).
• Junior & Senior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, India (2016–2021).