Personal Summary

Jackie Hiltz co-edited two Mansfield Center books, America’s Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach to History and Memory and Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: Cultural Perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest, both published by M.E. Sharpe. She is a graduate of Stanford University (B.A., History) and the University of Montana (M.A., Asian History). Her research and personal interests focus on the eastern Himalayas. She has presented and published papers on the history and politics of Sikkim, a Himalayan Buddhist kingdom for over three centuries, which in 1975 became the twenty-second state of India in a shadowy process some called annexation. Her book manuscript The Mountain Remains but the Kingdom Is Gone: A Personal History of Sikkim, a project spanning twenty years, solves the mystery of the kingdom’s demise through a careful and sometimes personal exploration of the characters, politics, and historical themes involved in this tragic story.