Contact
Eveline Washul
Director
email
Modern Tibetan Studies Program
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, #939
9th Floor, International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street
Mail Code 3333
New York, NY 10027
Faculty
Meg McLagan - Visiting Professor of Professional Practice, Barnard College
Research Interests: Tibetan Film Studies
Mary Phillips - Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Founder and President, Asian Scholar Fund
Research Interests: Chinese intellectual history
Gray Tuttle - Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies
Research Interests: Modern Tibetan history; Manchu Qing Empire frontiers; role of Tibetan Buddhism in Sino-Tibetan relations Eveline Washul - Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Director, Modern Tibetan Studies Program
Research Interests: Historical geographies of Tibet; Tibetan genealogies; anthropology of space and place; urbanization on the Tibetan Plateau
Tibet Collection Library Staff
Lauran Hartley, Tibetan Studies Librarian
Lauran Hartley (Ph.D., Indiana University, 2003) is Tibetan Studies Librarian at the C.V. Starr East Asian Library of Columbia University. She selects and purchases all types of material in Tibetan, both classical and contemporary, and oversees the PL480 Project’s Tibetan materials, as well as developing exchanges with institutions in Tibetan regions, coordinating initiatives with other Tibetan Studies Centers in the U.S. and abroad, and helping raise funds.
She has also taught courses on Tibetan literature and Tibetan religions at Columbia University, Rutgers University, and Indiana University. Her scholarly articles, reviews and translations have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (JIATS), Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie, Tibet Journal, Persimmon, Index on Censhorship, Mānoa and in the proceedings of the ninth and tenth IATS seminars (Leiden: Brill, 2002 and 2006). She is also co-editor of Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008).
C.V. Starr East Asian Library
300 Kent Hall, Mail Code 3901
Columbia University
1140 Amsterdam Ave.
New York , NY 10027
212-854-9875
Email: lh2112@columbia.edu
Lobsang Dondrup, Bibliographical Assistant
In December 2015, Lobsang Dondrup joined the C.V. Starr East Asian Library as Tibetan bibliographic assistant. A native of Qinghai Province, he brings multiple languages (Tibetan, Chinese, Amdo dialect, and Monguor) to the job. Lobsang is finishing his master’s degree in film at the City College of New York, and previously worked as Photographer and Media Consultant for the Trace Foundation’s Latse Library. In addition, he has co-edited two documentary films, co-founded the Tibetan Folk Video-Audio Studio in Xining, and served as Field Research Assistant for the University of Kansas Monguor Language Study Project, from 2003-2006.
C.V. Starr East Asian Library
300 Kent Hall, Mail Code 3901
Columbia University
1140 Amsterdam Ave.
New York , NY 10027
212-854-1509
Email: ld2702@columbia.edu
