Gamble, R.
| PersonType | Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors |
|---|---|
| FirstName / namefirst | Ruth |
| LastName / namelast | Gamble |
| MainNamePhon | Ruth Gamble |
| SortName | Gamble, Ruth |
| bio | Ruth is an environmental, cultural and climate historian of Tibet, the Himalaya, and Asia. She is writing her third book, a history of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River. Her previous books were on the relationship between sacred geography and the reincarnation tradition (Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism, OUP 2018) and a biography of the Third Karmapa (Master of Mahamudra, Shambhala 2020). She has also published numerous articles and book chapters on the region’s ecological politics, literatures, and histories. She completed her PhD in Asian Studies at the Australian National University, was a post-doctorate fellow at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, and a visiting fellow at Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Before coming to La Trobe University, she taught Tibetan language studies and Asian Religions at the Australian National University. She was a David Myers Research Fellow at La Trobe and was recently awarded an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship to conduct research on the Himalayan Cryosphere. (Source Accessed Oct. 31, 2023) |
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Full Name
Ruth Gamble
Affiliation
Australia National University
Education
PhD Candidate, Australia National University