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1 Curriculum Vitae of MELVYN C. GOLDSTEIN (Revised 4-6-2020) Curriculum Vitae Of MELVYN C. GOLDSTEIN (Revised 4-6-2020) Personal Background 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 1991-present: Professor of International HeAlth, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University (secondary appointment) 1991-present: Co-Director, Center for ReseArch on Tibet, Case Western Reserve University 1987-1991: Director, Center for ReseArch on Tibet, Case Western Reserve University 1975-2002: ChairmAn of Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University 1978-present: Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University 1974-1978: AssociAte Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University 1968-1971: AssistAnt Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University 1 -- Professional Activities and Honors Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve University, 2020. Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences, Section 51, Anthropology, 2009- present. Distinguished Research Award, Case Western Reserve University, 2016 The AssociAtion for AsiAn Studies’ 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"). This monumental study is a path-breaking contribution to our understanding of modern Tibet. Melvyn Goldstein has marshalled an impressive array of documentary, archival and interview sources to provide critical new insights into the political and diplomatic history of Tibet during its independence of Chinese domination. Particularly important is the author’s use of Tibetan sources to go beyond the question of Tibet’s relation to China, and narrate in detail the conflicts within Tibetan society: between monastic and lay elements, between reformers and conservatives, between rival regents’ cliques. The Levinson Prize Committee of the China and Inner Asia Council is proud to give Honorable Mention to Professor Goldstein for this impressive contribution to the development of an important part of our field. Editor, Tibet Oral History and Archive Project (TOHAP), Library of Congress, Asian Division. On-going. The Frank and Dorothy Hummel Hovorka Prize, Case Western Reserve University, 2012. Co-founder And Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 1986-1996. Member, National Committee on United States-China Relations, 1997-present. Board of Directors, Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund, 1997-2009. Member, Advisory Committee of the journal, Inner Asia, 1998-present. Member, International Commission on Aging, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). 2 -- 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 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, Who’s Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 2016-2017 (12th Edition) Research Grants and Fellowships (excludes student dissertation awards and CWRU grants) 1961-1964 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. 1967-1968 NAtional Institute of MentAl HeAlth: Dissertation Fellowship. 1970-1972 Office of EducAtion, Institute for International Studies: Modern Tibetan-English Dictionary. (PI.) 1973-1974 Extension of Modern TibetAn-English Dictionary Project (Principal Investigator). 3 -- 1973-1974 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. 1980-1981 NAtional Geographic Society, Committee for ReseArch and Exploration: A Social, Ecological and Demographic Study of Buddhist Monasticism, PI. 1980-1982 Department of EducAtion, Institute for International Studies: English-Tibetan Dictionary (G 00800 1738) PI. 1980-1982 NAtional Endowment for the HumAnities: English- Tibetan Dictionary (RT00066-80-1374) (PI). 1980-1981 ClevelAnd Foundation: Health Care Utilization Behavior in Cleveland's West Side. 1981-1983 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). 1982-1984 NAtional Endowment for the HumAnities: Modern Tibetan History: 1913-51 (RO-20261-82) (PI). 1982-1984 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: 4 -- 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). 1986-1988 NAtional Geographic Society: Committee for Exploration and ReseArch Tibetan Pastoral Nomads: Cultural and Ecological Perspectives. (#3322-86), (PI). 1986-1989 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). 1987-1990 NAtional Institute on Aging: The Impact of China's Economic Reforms on the Elderly . (1-RO1- AG06793-01), (PI). 1989-1991 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). 1989-1992 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). 1990-1991 IREX (International ReseArch and Exchange Board) A study of nomadic pastoralism in the Mongolian People's Republic (PI) 5 -- 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). 1992-1994 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). 1994-1996 Department of EducAtion, International Studies Division A Comprehensive Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan (PO-17A-30010-94), (PI). 1994-1996 NAtional Endowment for the HumAnities A social and political history of Tibet, 1951-59 (supplement) (RO -22754-94). (PI). (RO-22251-91). 1995-1997 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). 6 -- 2005-2007 NAtional Endowment for the HumAnities Oral History of Tibetans in India (RZ-50326-05), (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). 2008-2011 NAtional Endowment for the HumAnities Tibetan Voices: An Oral History of Tibetan. (RZ-50845-08), (PI) Publications A. Books, Monographs and Dissertation In preparation Melvyn C. Goldstein. Tibetan Voices: An Oral history of the impact of the 1959 Tibetan uprising.
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