Tegh Khosla

Tegh is a Master of International Affairs student at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he studies Urban and Social Policy with a regional focus on East Asia. He is interested in post-Korean War state-building legacies and their implications for social welfare, gender and sexuality, and understandings of citizenship in the twenty-first century.

Before Columbia, Tegh received his B.A. from Colby College in 2024, with a double major in East Asian Studies and Biology, and was awarded the East Asian Studies Prize for Academic Distinction for his honors thesis. During his undergraduate studies, he also studied abroad at Yonsei University, and after graduating, he taught in South Korea for one year.