Robert Barnett (scholar)

Robert Barnett (born 1953) is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London and Affiliate Lecturer and Research Affiliate at the Lau China Institute, King's College, London. He is the former Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program, where he was Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Tibetan Studies and Senior Research Scholar in modern Tibetan history at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. He retired from Columbia as of January 2018. He is also referred to as Robbie Barnett by the media.

Biography

Robert Barnett founded and directed Columbia's Modern Tibetan Studies Program, the first Western teaching program in the field,

In 1987, Barnett, with Nicholas Howen, co-founded the Tibet Information Network (TIN), an independent London-based research organization covering events in Tibet, of which he was the director until 1998.^[8]

Selected publications

• Barnett, Robert, ed. (1994). Resistance and Reform in Tibet. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
• Barnett, Robert (2006). Lhasa: Streets with Memories. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Barnett, Robert and Ronald Schwartz, eds. (2008). Tibetan Modernities: Notes from the Field. Leiden: Brill Publishers.
• Tsering Woeser (2020). Forbidden Memory: Tibet in the Cultural Revolution. Edited and introduced by Robert Barnett. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
• Barnett, Robert, Benno Weiner and Françoise Robin, eds. (2020). Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold. Leiden: Brill Publishers.

Affiliations

• Modern Tibetan Studies Program at Columbia University
• Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University
• Columbia University

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