Charles Ramble

***1. Personal information*** Name: Charles A.E. Ramble Nationality: British Date of birth: 6 February 1957 Place of birth: Calcutta, India Present employment: Directeur d’études (Professor of Tibetan History and Philology) École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, 4-14 rue Ferrus 75014 Paris email: charles.ramble@orinst.ox.ac.uk ***2. Education*** 1979-1985 University of Oxford, UK. D.Phil. in social anthropology. Title of doctoral thesis: “The lamas of Lubra: Tibetan Bonpo householder priests in North-west Nepal”. 1976–1979 University of Durham, UK. BA (Joint hons.) in psychology and anthropology. 1975–1976 Pomfret Academy, Pomfret, Connecticut, USA. 1969–1975 Peter Symonds’ Grammar School, Winchester, UK. ***3. Post-doctoral research and employment*** 2016– Co-director of Franco-German research project “Social Status in the Tibetan World” (three-year project funded by the French National Research Agency \[ANR\] and the German Research Council \[DFG\] 2010– Directeur d’études, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Paris. 2010– Research Lecturer in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, University of Oxford. 2012–2016 Co-director of Franco-German research project “The Social History of Tibetan Societies, 17th–20th centuries (three-year project funded by the French National Research Agency \[ANR\] and the German Research Council \[DFG\] 2012–2015 Principal Investigator in Franco-Austrian research project “Text, Art and Performance in Bön Ritual” (three-year project funded by the Austrian Research Council \[FWF\]) 2000–2010 University Lecturer in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, University of Oxford. 1999 Chargé de cours, University of Paris X (Nanterre): lectures in anthropology of the Himalaya to MA and PhD candidates in ethnology. 1998–2000 Researcher, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology), University of Vienna. 1997–1998 Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Seminar für Zentralasienwissenschaft of the Humboldt University, Berlin, for the continuation of the Nepal-German Project on High Mountain Archaeology Research associate (Auftragnehmer) at the Institut für Völkerkunde, University of Vienna. 1997 Chargé de cours in Anthropology of Tibet and Nepal to diploma students INALCO, University of Paris. 1996–1997 Associate member l'ESA 8047, (CNRS/EPHE), Etudes tibétaines. 1992-1997 Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Seminar für Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft Zentralasiens, University of Bonn, in the framework of the Nepal-German project on High Mountain Archaeology, a multidisciplinary research project on the history of settlement in northern Nepal, funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). 1991–1992 Chargé de cours, University of Paris X (Nanterre): lectures in anthropology of the Himalaya to MA and PhD candidates in ethnology. 1989–1991 Consultant anthropologist in the research phase of a project to establish two contiguous cultural and environmental conservation zones: the Makalu-Barun Conservation Area in East Nepal, and the Qomolongma Nature Preserve in southern Tibet. 1987–1989 Naturalist in the Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal. 1985–1987 Leverhulme study abroad scholarship for further research in Nepal and Tibet. ***4. Visiting professorships*** 2013 (Sept–Oct) Visiting professor, Central University for Nationalities, Beijing, China. 2011 (Dec) – Visiting professor, Northwestern Minorities University, Lanzhou, 2012 (Jan) Gansu, China. 2010 (Dec)– Visiting professor, CIRDIS: Center for Interdisciplinary Research and 2011 (March) Documentation of Inner and South Asian Cultural History, University of Vienna. 2008 (Oct–Dec) Visiting research fellow, Institut für Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, University of Vienna. ***5. Grants and project associations (selected since 2000)*** 2016– Director of the French team of the Franco-German research project “Social Status in the Tibetan World,” a three-year project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) and the German Research Council (DFG) (German team directed by Peter Schwieger, University of Bonn) 2015– Cooperation partner of “Das Mustang ARCHIV: Untersuchung von handschriftlichen Dokumenten durch ethnographische Studien der Papierherstellungstradition in Nepal”, a two-year project directed by [Agnieszka Helman-Wazny](http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/person/252909847), Universität Hamburg, funded by the German Research Council (DFG) 2012–2016 Director of the French team of the Franco-German research project “The Social History of Tibetan Societies, 17th–20th centuries” (SHTS), three-year project (Mar 2012–Feb 2015) funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR-11-FRAL-0015, €320,000) and the German Research Council (German team directed by Peter Schwieger, University of Bonn), www.tibetanhistory.net 2012–2015 Principal Investigator in Franco-Austrian research project “Text, Art and Performance in Bön Ritual,” three-year project (Dec 2012–Nov 2015) funded by the Austrian Research Council (FWF: P24702-G21, €230,285) 2007–2011 “A Comparative Study of the Earliest Bon and Buddhist Phur pa traditions” (four-year project \[May 2007–April 2011\], funded by the AHRC (£220,205) 2006–2010 “A Critical Edition of the Thabs-kyi zhags-pa and a Comparative Study of its Commentary,” four-year project (March 2006–April 2010), funded by the AHRC **(**£151,248) 2004–2007 “Dunhuang Phur-pa materials,” a study of early Tibetan religious literature based on archaeological finds, three-year project (2004–2007), funded by the AHRB (£95,048) Beginning “Ancient Tantras” Text Restorations: Critical Editions & Studies of Two Seminal Early Tibetan Scriptures (£97,734) ***6. Advisory positions and professional memberships*** 2017*–* President elect, Société Européenne pour l’Etude des Civilisations de l’Himalaya et de l’Asie Centrale (SEECHAC). 2017– Directeur, équipe Tibet, Bhoutan et Aires culturelles tibétaines. 2015– Membre du conseil scientifique, Maison Archaeologie et Ethnologie, Université Paris Ouest. 2014–2016 Member of Scientific Advisory Body, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Science. 2014– Membre de la Société Asiatique. 2013– Member of editorial board, *Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde,* Vienna. 2012— Membre du conseil d’administraton de la Société Européenne pour l'Etude des Civilisations de l'Himalaya et de l'Asie Centrale (SEECHAC) ============================================================================================================================================= 2012– 2015 Membre du conseil scientifique de la Société française de l’étude du monde tibétain (member of the scientific council of the French Society for the Study of the Tibetan World). 2011– Membre du conseil scientifique de l’École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) (member of the scientific council of the French School of East Asian Studies). 2011– Editorial board member, *Etudes mongoles, siberiennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines.* 2010– Membre du conseil scientifique de l’Association internationale pour les recherches sur le Bön (AIRB) (member of the scientific council of the International Association for Research on Bön). 2008–2012 Member of the selection committee for Section 38 of the CNRS (Membre du jury d’admissibilité du comité national de la recherche scientifique, Section 38). 2007–2013 Member of the scientific committee of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Documentation of Inner and South Asian Cultural History (CIRDIS), based at the University of Vienna. 2006–2013 President, International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS). 2004– Vice-President, Eco-Himal UK 2003– Editorial board member, Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library. 2000–2006 Member of the advisory board of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS). 1994–2002 Co-editor (with Prof. Kamal Prakash Malla) of *Kailash: a Journal of Himalayan Studies.* Latest...