Robert Barnett (born 1953) is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London and Affliate 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
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. 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,
until December 2017. His most recent books are ''Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold'', co-edited with Benno Weiner and Françoise Robin (Brill Publishers, 2020) ''Tibetan Modernities: Notes from the Field,'' with Ronald Schwartz (Brill Publishers, 2008) and ''Lhasa: Streets with Memories'' (Columbia University Press, 2006). Barnett has also written articles about modern Tibetan history, post-1950 leaders in Tibet, Tibetan cinema and television, women and politics in Tibet, and contemporary exorcism rituals. At Columbia, he taught courses on Tibetan film and television, contemporary culture, history, oral history, and other subjects. From 2000 to 2006 he ran the annual summer program for foreign students at
Tibet University in
Lhasa
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and has taught courses at Princeton and Inalco (Paris). He is a frequent commentator about Tibet and about nationality issues in China for the
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, and other media.