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Center for Research on Tibet receives new funding
The Center for Research on Tibet, based in the department of anthropology at Case, has received funding in 2005 for a series of new projects on Tibet and adaptation to high altitude hypoxia. Sarah Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology Cynthia Beall and John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology Melvyn C. Goldstein, who also directs the Center, are the principal investigators or co-principal investigators on the projects, which include:
- Oral History of Tibetans In India” National Endowment for the Humanities (RZ-50326-05), PI. Melvyn C. Goldstein (J.R. Harkness Professor), ($100,000) 2005-2008.
- “Nomadic Pastoral Society in Tibet: A study of 20 yrs of change and adaptation” The Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, PI. Melvyn C. Goldstein (J.R. Harkness Professor), Co-PI Cynthia M. Beall (I.M. Pyle Professor) ($25,000), 2005-2006.
- “Economic Development and Intergenerational Relations in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.” National Science Foundation (Human and Social Dynamics Program, #0527500) PI. Melvyn C. Goldstein (J.R. Harkness Professor ($500,000), 2005-2008.
- “Ethiopian Adaptation to High Altitude Hypoxia.” National Science Foundation (BCS 0452326), PI. Cynthia M. Beall (I.M. Pyle Professor), ($ 221,863), 2005-2008.
Professors Beall and Goldstein also undertook two months of fieldwork for the nomad project this past summer in a remote part of Tibet at altitudes between 15-17,500 feet. Professor Beall also spent two months in Ethiopia this past spring conducting fieldwork in the remote Semien Mountains at 12,200 feet. She will return there in December for the next round of fieldwork.
For more on the Center for Research on Tibet, visit http://www.cwru.edu/affil/tibet/.
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