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{{Short description|British-American Tibetologist}}
{{other people|Robert Barnett}}
[[File:Tibet scholar Robbie Barnett.jpg|thumb|Robbie Barnett]]'''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,<ref name="Columbia University WEAI – Modern Tibetan Studies Program">{{cite web | url= http://weai.columbia.edu/modern-tibetan-studies-program/ | title= Modern Tibetan Studies Program | author=  | website= [[Columbia University]] | publisher= | accessdate= 22 July 2016 | archive-date= 8 October 2017 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171008181953/http://weai.columbia.edu/modern-tibetan-studies-program/ | url-status= dead }}</ref> 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)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://brill.com/view/title/57758| title= Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold,}}</ref> ''Tibetan Modernities: Notes from the Field,'' with Ronald Schwartz (Brill Publishers, 2008)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brill.com/proceedings-tenth-seminar-iats-2003-volume-11-tibetan-modernities| title= Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 11: Tibetan Modernities| accessdate= 22 July 2016 }},</ref> and ''Lhasa: Streets with Memories'' (Columbia University Press, 2006).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Lhasa-Streets-Memories-Perspectives-History/dp/0231136811| title= Lhasa: Streets with Memories (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) | publisher= [[Columbia University Press]]| date= 8 June 2010| isbn= 978-0231136815 }}</ref> 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]] and has taught courses at Princeton and Inalco (Paris). He is a frequent commentator about Tibet and about nationality issues in China for the [[BBC]], [[CNN]], [[NPR]], [[CBS]], [[The New York Times]], the [[Washington Post]], [[The New York Review of Books]], and other media.<ref name="barnett1">New York Review of Books:[http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/aug/22/chinas-liberation-tibet-rules-game/ Robert Barnett in NYRB]</ref><ref name="barnett2">New York Times: [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/opinion/25barnett.html Barnett OpEd]</ref> Barnett directed 15 educational projects in Tibet, including training programs in ecotourism and conservation.<ref name="barnett3">Weatherhead East Asian Institute:[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/faculty/barnett.html Robert Barnett]</ref>
Prior to joining the Columbia faculty in 1998, Barnett worked as a researcher and journalist based in the United Kingdom, specializing in Tibetan issues for the [[BBC]], the [[South China Morning Post]], VOA, and other media outlets.

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.<ref>Juned Shaikh [http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/nwsanet/2006/000095.html Robert Barnett – Tibet: Between China and India ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003131737/http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/nwsanet/2006/000095.html|date=3 October 2009|title=Copie archivée }}, University of Washington.</ref>

==Selected publications==
*Barnett, Robert, ed. (1994). [https://www.amazon.com/Resistance-Reform-Tibet-Robert-Barnett/dp/0253311314 ''Resistance and Reform in Tibet'']. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
*Barnett, Robert (2006). [https://cup.columbia.edu/book/lhasa/9780231136815/ ''Lhasa: Streets with Memories'']. New York: [[Columbia University Press]].
*Barnett, Robert and Ronald Schwartz, eds. (2008). [https://brill.com/display/title/13247?rskey=jf3UB6&result=2 ''Tibetan Modernities: Notes from the Field'']. Leiden: [[Brill Publishers]].
*Tsering Woeser (2020). [https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/potomac-%ADbooks/9781612349695/ ''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). [https://brill.com/view/title/57758 ''Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold'']. Leiden: [[Brill Publishers]].

== Affiliations ==
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/modern-tibetan-studies.html Modern Tibetan Studies Program at Columbia University]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/weai Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University]
*[http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]

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