College of Arts and Humanities
Geoffrey Gamble - University President
Dr. Geoffrey Gamble became the 11th
president of Montana State University in December of 2000.
Prior to Montana State, Gamble was the Provost and Senior
Vice President at the University of Vermont and served as chief
academic and operating officer. As such, he was responsible for the
annual budget, operations of academic colleges (including Medicine)
and academic/support units, institutional planning, and interface
and staff support for the UVM Board of Trustees.
Prior to his service at the University of Vermont, Gamble
was at Washington State University where he rose through the ranks
to professor of anthropology. During his tenure at WSU, Gamble
served as interim Provost for one year, Vice Provost for five
years, and held other administrative posts including Department
Chair, Director of the Museum of Anthropology, and Director of
Summer Session. During his tenure as Vice Provost, Gamble worked
with the evolution of the four WSU campuses into "a single
university, geographically dispersed."
Gamble is the author of two books and a dozen articles on
Native American languages and has presented numerous scholarly
papers. He has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
and the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as other
organizations and has received service awards from the State of
Washington, WSU, and Mujeres Unidas.
Geoffrey Gamble holds a B.A. in English from Fresno State
College, an M.A. in Linguistics from California State University,
Fresno and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of
California, Berkeley. He spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at
the Smithsonian Institute.