Dr. Nawang B. Phuntsog is an associate professor of education in the Department of Elementary, and Bilingual Education at California State University at Fullerton, and received his doctorate of education in 1993 from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His areas of specialization include multicultural education, curriculum development, and teacher education.
He has been selected as a Fullbright-Nehru Research Scholar to India for the year 2017-2018. Dr. Phuntsog is currently in India conducting the first phase of his research that explores the intersection of compassion-based inner values (secular ethics), the Middle Way Approach for resolving the Sino-Tibetan issue, and Tibetan Nationalism in the schooling process.