About

Tegh Khosla is a Master of International Affairs candidate at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, concentrating in Urban and Social Policy with a regional focus on East Asia. His work sits at the intersection of history, queer studies, and sociology, with a sustained interest in how institutions define the terms of citizenship, gender, sexuality, and social belonging.

His scholarship thus far has produced two original theoretical contributions. The first, queerscaping, builds off of queerscape theory to describe the act of carving out an alternative existence in a predominantly heteronormative space, generating friction in real time through direct confrontation and negotiation with the institutions and individuals that police non-normative sexuality. The second, Men Attracted to Men (MAM), proposes a culturally neutral analytic alternative to existing categories like gay, MSM, or queer men, designed to include men whose desire remains internal and socially invisible yet who are nonetheless shaped by the legal structures, institutional norms, and cultural forces that govern same-sex desire. These contributions are developed in his undergraduate honors thesis. 

His current writing examines how law, militarism, and national belonging intersect in South Korea, and what those intersections reveal about the relationship between state power and everyday life. He treats cultural production as a historical archive and is particularly drawn to the questions that institutional accounts alone cannot answer.