• Simon Wickhamsmith
  • Simon Wickhamsmith
  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Research / Specialization:

    Mongolian culture and literary history; Tibetan Buddhism; Spiritual Ecology and posthumanism

  • Books:

    Monograph
    Politics and Literature in Mongolia 1921-1948. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020

    Edited Volume
    Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia: Nation, Identty, and Culture [co-edited with Phillip Marzluf]. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.

    Annotated Translation and Commentary
    The Hidden Life of the Sixth Dalai Lama. 
    Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012.

    Translations
    Suncranes: Modern Mongolian Short Fiction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.
    Ts.Oidov The End of the Dark Era. Los Angeles: Phoneme Media, 2015.

     

  • Education:

    BA (Hons) King's College, London University (1990)
    MA University of Washington, Seattle (2010)
    PhD University of Washingtonm Seattle (2012)

  • otherdeptuniversitypostions:

    Affiliated with the Department of Asian Studies and the South Asian Studies Program.