Curriculum Vitae
of
MELVYN C. GOLDSTEIN
(Revised 10/14/2010)
Personal Background
Born: February 8, 1938, New York City
Education
B.A., 1959, University of Michigan, history
M.A., 1960, University of Michigan, history
Ph.D., 1968, University of Washington, anthropology
Employment
1991-present: John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University; Co-Director, Center for Research on Tibet.
1991-present: Professor of International Health, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University (secondary appointment)
1987-present: Director, Center for Research on Tibet, Case Western Reserve University
1978-1990: Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
1975-2002: Chairman of Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
1971-77: Associate Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
1968-71: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
Professional Activities and Honors
Member, National Academy of Sciences, Section 51, Anthropology, 2009- present.
The Association for Asian Studies’s Joseph Levenson Prize for best monograph on Twentieth-Century China in 1989: Honorable Mention: ("A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-51: The Demise of the Lamaist State").
Member, National Committee on United States-China Relations, 1997-present.
Board of Directors, Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund, 1997-2009.
Member, Advisory Committee, Inner Asia, 1998-present.
Member, International Commission on Aging, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES).
Member, International Commission on Nomadic Peoples. International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES).
Member, Editorial Board, J. of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 1996-present.
Executive Board, Nepal and Himalayan Studies Association 2003-2006.
Member, Advisory Board, Peak Enterprise Program of the Mountain Institute (for Tibetan Development). 1998-2005.
Member, Senior Advisory Committee, Mount Everest Binational Nature Reserve Project (Nepal and China), Woodlands Mountain Institute, 1991-200
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 1986-1996.
Member, National Academy of Sciences' Panel on Grassland Science in Northern China, 1991.
Member, Tibet Fact-Finding delegation; National Committee on United States-China Relations, 1991.
Who's Who in America, Who’s Who in American Education, Contemporary Authors, Who's Who in Social Sciences Higher Education, Who’s Who in the World
Research Grants and Fellowships (excludes student dissertation awards)
Completed
1961-64 National Defense Educational Act, Title IV: Tibetan Language.
1965 American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship: The Study of Tibetan Social Organization in India.
1966 American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship: The Study of Tibetan Social Organization in India. Fellowship for additional year.
1967-68 National Institute of Mental Health: Dissertation Fellowship.
1970-72 Office of Education, Institute for International Studies: Modern Tibetan-English Dictionary. (PI.)
1973-74 Extension of Modern Tibetan-English Dictionary Project (Principal Investigator).
1973-74 American Council of Learned Societies: Senior Fellowship for research in Northwest Nepal.
1976 National Institute of Health, NICHD, Population Research Institute: Traditional Fertility in N.W. Nepal (HDO-8984-01), (PI.).
1980 American Council of Learned Societies: Research on Lhasa Street Songs.
1980-81 National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration: A Social, Ecological and Demographic Study of Buddhist Monasticism, PI.
1980-82 Department of Education, Institute for International Studies: English-Tibetan Dictionary (G 00800 1738) PI.
1980-82 National Endowment for the Humanities: English- Tibetan Dictionary (RT00066-80-1374) (PI).
1980-81 Cleveland Foundation:
Health Care Utilization Behavior in Cleveland's West Side.
1981-83 National Institute of Health, NICHD, Population Research Institute: The Cost/Value of Children in Urban Nepal (PI) (HD-13827-01A1), PI.
1982 The Population Council:
Determinants of Fertility in Urban Nepal (PI).
1982-84 National Endowment for the Humanities:
Modern Tibetan History: 1913-51 (RO-20261-82) (PI).
1982-84 Smithsonian Institution:
Modern Tibetan History: 1913-51 (PI).
1983 National Science Foundation:
The Effect of Lifelong High Levels of Physical Activity on The Aging Process. (Co-PI).
1985 National Endowment for the Humanities:
Modern Tibetan History: 1913-51--Supplement (RO-20886-85) (PI).
1985 National Academy of Sciences:
National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China, (CSCPRC) New Lexical Forms in Tibet (Lhasa)" in China, (CSCPRC) Tibetan Pastoral Nomads: Cultural and Ecological Perspectives. (PI).
1986 National Academy of Sciences:
National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China, (CSCPRC) Tibetan Pastoral Nomads: Cultural and Ecological Perspectives. (PI).
1986-88 National Geographic Society:
Committee for Exploration and Research
Tibetan Pastoral Nomads: Cultural and Ecological Perspectives. (#3322-86), (PI).
1986-89 Department of Education, Institute of International
Studies: A Grammar-Reader of Literary Tibetan,
(PI).
1987 National Geographic Society:
Committee for Exploration and Research,
Supplement to Tibetan Pastoral Nomads Project.
1987 National Science Foundation:
Hypoxemia and Pastoral nomadism in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, (Co-PI).
1987-90 National Institute on Aging:
The Impact of China's Economic Reforms on the
Elderly . (1-RO1- AG06793-01), (PI).
1989-91 National Academy of Sciences:
National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China, (CSCPRC) A study of the social, economic and political organization of Tibetan large-scale monasticism during the traditional period. (PI).
1989-92 National Endowment for the Humanities
A study of the social, economic and political organization of Tibetan large-scale monasticism during the traditional period. (RO-21860-89), (PI).
1990-91 IREX (International Research and Exchange Board)
A study of nomadic pastoralism in the Mongolian People's Republic (PI)
1990 National Geographic Society:
Committee for Exploration and Research,
Follow-up Study on Tibetan Pastoral Nomads, (PI).
1992 IREX (International Research and Exchange Board)
A follow-up study of nomadic pastoralism in Mongolia (Principal Investigator), (PI).
1992-94 National Endowment for the Humanities
A social and political history of Tibet, 1951-59.
(Principal Investigator) (RO-22251-91), (PI)..
1992 National Geographic Society:
Committee for Exploration and Research,
Mongolia’s Pastoral Nomads, (PI).
1995 National Geographic Society:
Committee for Exploration and Research,
Tibetan nomad follow-up study (#5603-95, (PI).
1994-96 Department of Education, International Studies Division
A Comprehensive Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan (PO-17A-30010-94), (PI).
1994-96 National Endowment for the Humanities
A social and political history of Tibet, 1951-59 (supplement) (RO -22754-94). (PI). (RO-22251-91).
1995-97 National Endowment for the Humanities
A lexicon of traditional Tibetan government terminology (RT- 21671-95), (PI). (RT-21671-95).
1997-2001 Henry Luce Foundation, China Research Competitive Program
Impact of post-Mao reforms on rural Tibet, (PI).
2000-2004 National Endowment for the Humanities
A social and political history of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, (RZ-20585-00), (PI).
2005-2006 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Nomadic Pastoral society in Tibet: A study of twenty years of change and adaptation in Phala
2001-2008 Henry Luce Foundation
Tibetan Oral History and Archive Project, (PI).
2005-2007 National Endowment for the Humanities
Oral History of Tibetans in India (RZ-50326-05), (PI).
Current
2008-2010 National Endowment for the Humanities
Tibetan Voices: An Oral History of Tibetan. (RZ-50845-08), (PI)
2005-2010 National Science Foundation (Human and Social Dynamics Program)
Economic Development and Intergenerational Relations in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. (NSF, HSD, 0527500), (PI).
Publications
A. Books, Monographs and Dissertation
In preparation Melvyn C. Goldstein,. A History of Modern Tibet, Volume Three, 1955-1957: The Storm Clouds Descend.
2009 Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, Tanzen Lhundrup. On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo incident of 1969. U. of California Press, pp. 236.
[http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11013.php]
Paperback edition, 2010
2007 Melvyn C. Goldstein. A History of Modern Tibet, Volume Two, 1951-1955: The Calm Before the Storm. University of California Press, pp .639. [http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10123.php]
Paperback edition, 2009
2004 Melvyn C. Goldstein, Dawei Sherap, William Siebenschuh. A Tibetan Revolutionary. The political life of Bapa Phüntso Wangye. U. of California Press, pp. 371.
Paperback edition, 2006.
[ http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9933.html]
Tibetan Language edition: [bod mi gsar brje ba zhig: ‘ba’ pa phun tshogs dbang rgyal gyi srid don mi tshad dang dus skabs].. Dharamsala India, Tibet Times Publishers, 2006.
Korean Language Edition, Seoul: Silcheon Munhak Publishers, 2010.
Chinese Language Edition, Hong Kong University Press, 2010 .
2001. Melvyn C. Goldstein. The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. U. of California Press, pp. 1,200.
South Asian Edition, New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., India, 2004
1998. Melvyn C. Goldstein and M. Kapstein. Eds. Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and National Identity. U. of California Press, pp. 207.
Paperback edition, 1999.
South Asian Edition, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, India, 1999.
1997 Melvyn C. Goldstein. The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama. U. of California Press, pp. 152.
Paperback edition 1999.
Italian Edition. Baldini & Castoldi, 1998.
Chinese edition, Hong Kong: Mirror Publishers, 2005.
1997 Melvyn C. Goldstein, William Siebenschuh, and Tashi Tsering. The Struggle for a Modern Tibet: the Autobiography of Tashi Tsering. M.E.Sharpe, pp. 207.
Paperback edition, 1999.
Chinese edition, Hong Kong: Mirror Publishers, 2000
Tibetan Edition, 2009.
1994 Melvyn C. Goldstein and Cynthia M. Beall. The Changing World of Mongolia’s Nomads. U. of California Press., pp. 176.
Paperback edition, 1994.
German edition (Die Nomaden der Mongolie). DAVerlag Das Andere. 1994; Asian Edition Odyssey Press, Hong Kong 1994.
1993 Melvyn C. Goldstein and Charlotte Ikels (Guest Editors). “Policy and Aging in Contemporary China.” J. of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. Vol. 8, No. 3.
1991 Melvyn C. Goldstein. Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan: A reading course and reference grammar. U. of California Press.
South Asian Edition, New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Ltd., India.
1990 Melvyn C. Goldstein and Cynthia M. Beall. Nomads of Western Tibet: The survival of a way of life. Berkeley: U. of California Press.
Paperback edition 1990
Asian Edition, Odyssey Publications, Hong Kong, 1990
British edition, Serindia Publishers, London, 1990
German Edition (Die Nomaden Westtibets). DAVerlag Das Andere 1991,
Chinese language edition, 1993 .
1989 Melvyn C. Goldstein. A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State. University of California Press, pp. 898.
Paperback edition 1991.
South Asian Edition 1993
Chinese language editions, Beijing 1994, 1997, 2005.
Electronic edition, U. of California, 2000.
1987 Melvyn C. Goldstein. Tibetan Phrasebook, Lonely Planet Publishers, 108 pages.
1984 Melvyn C. Goldstein. English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan, Berkeley: University of California Press, 485 pgs.
Asian Edition, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1986
Revised Asian Edition, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1999.
1982 Melvyn C. Goldstein. Tibetan for Beginners and Travelers.
Kathmandu: Ratna Pustak Bhandar Publishers.
1975 Melvyn C. Goldstein. Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan, Kathmandu: Biblioteca Himalaya Series, II, Vol. 9. , Nepal. pp. 1250.
(1980) Second Edition.
(1984) Third Edition.
(1994) Fourth Edition.
1973 Melvyn C. Goldstein. Modern Literary Tibetan: A Grammar and Reader, Vol. V. Occasional Papers of the Wolfenden Society on Tibeto-Burmese Linguistics. pp. 350.
(1979) Second Edition. India.
1970 Melvyn C. Goldstein. Modern Spoken Tibetan: Lhasa Dialect,
University of Washington Press, 400 pgs.(with Nawang Nornang)
(1979) Second Printing, in Biblioteca Himalaya
Series II, Vol. II.
(1979) Translation into French. Kagyu Dzong, Tibetan
Buddhist Centre in Paris.
(1984) Third Printing.
1968 Ph.D. Dissertation: An Anthropological Analysis of the
Tibetan Political System, University Microfilms.
B. Articles (excludes book reviews)
100. accepted Geoff Childs, Melvyn C. Goldstein, and Puchung Wangdui
“Balancing People, Policies, and Resources in Rural Tibet.” In, Eduardo Brondizio and Emilio F. Moran (eds.), Human-Environment Interactions: Current and Future Directions.
99. accepted G. Childs, M. C. Goldstein, P Wangdui. “Externally-resident daughters, social capital, and support for the elderly in rural Tibet.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology.
98. 2010 Goldstein, M.C., G. Childs, Phujung Wangdui. “Beijing’s “People First” development initiative for the Tibet Autonomous Region’s rural sector—a case study from the Shigatse area.” The China Journal, Vol. 63: 59-78.
97 2010 Goldstein, M.C. Tibetan Buddhism and Mass Monasticism. In Adeline Herrou and Gisele Krauskopff (eds.), Des moines et des moniales dans le monde. La vie monastique dans le miroir de la parenté. Presses Universitaires de Toulouse le Mirail.
96 2008 Goldstein, M.C., Ben Jiao, Tanzen Lhundup. Conflict During the Cultural Revolution: On The Nyemo Ani incident of 1969. In Huber and Pirie (eds.), Conflict in Tibet. Brill Publishers.
95. 2008 Goldstein, M.C., G. Childs and Puchung Wangdui
‘Going for Income in Village Tibet’: A Longitudinal Analysis of Change and Adaptation, 1997-98 to 2006-07. Asian Survey. 48:3 (May/June), pp. 513-534.
94. 2005 Goldstein, M.C., Ben Jiao, C.M. Beall, Phuntso Tsering. Development and Change in Rural Tibet: Problems and Adaptation. Republished in Dreyer and Sautman. Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region. M.E. Sharpe Publishers.
93. 2005 Goldstein, M.C. The United States, Tibet and the Cold War: contemporary perspectives. Journal of Cold War Studies, Volume 8 (3) :145-164.
92 2005 Geoff Childs, Melvyn Goldstein, Ben Jiao, Cynthia Beall. Tibetan Fertility Transitions in China and south Asia. Population and Development Review (31):2: 337-351.
91. 2004 Cynthia M. Beall, Kijoung Song, Robert C.Elston, Melvyn C. Goldstein. Higher offspring survival among Tibetan women with high oxygen saturation genotypes residing at 4000 m. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
90. 2004 Goldstein, M.C., Sino-Tibetan relations in the Twentieth Century, In Governing China’s Multiethnic Frontiers, M. Rossabi (ed.), U. of Washington Press, pp. 186-229.
89. 2003 Goldstein, M.C. On Modern Tibetan History: Moving Beyond Stereotypes. In Alex McKay (Ed.) Tibet and her Neighbours. A History
London: Edition Hansjoerg Mayer, pp. 219-226.
88. 2003 Goldstein, M.C., Ben Jiao, C.M. Beall, Phuntso Tsering. Development and Change in Rural Tibet: Problems and Adaptation. Asian Survey 43 (5): 758-779, September/October.
87. 2002 Goldstein, M.C. and C.M. Beall. Changing patterns of Tibetan nomadic pastoralism. In Human Biology of Pastoral Populations, Leonard and Crawford (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 131-150.
86. 2002 Goldstein, M.C., Ben Jiao, C.M. Beall, Phuntso Tsering. Fertility and Family Planning in Rural Tibet. The China Journal, 47 (1): pp. 19-40.
[Translated into Chinese and published in Yu Zhen and Dawa Cairen (eds), China’s Ethnic Relations and Development [zhongguo de minzu guanxihe minzu fazhan, pp. 221-247, 2003].
85. 1998 Goldstein. The Revival of Monastic Life in Drepung Monastery. In
Goldstein and Kapstein (eds.) Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival & Cultural Identity. pp.15-52.
84. 1998 Goldstein. Introduction. In Goldstein and Kapstein (eds.) Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival & Cultural Identity. pp.1-15.
83. 1998 The Dalai Lama’s Dilemma. Foreign Affairs. 77 (1):83-97.
82. 1997 Beall, Cynthia M., K.P. Strohl, J. Blangero, S. Williams-Blangero, G.M. Brittenham, and Melvyn C. Goldstein. Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Arterial Oxygen Saturation in Tibetan Highlanders. Human Biology 69(5):597-604.