Dr. Geoffrey Gamble is President of Montana State University.
Dr. Gamble was named the 11th president of Montana State University in December of 2000. Previously he served as the Provost and Senior Vice President at the University of Vermont, and prior to that at Washington State University he rose through the ranks to professor of anthropology. During his tenure at WSU, Dr. 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.
Dr. Gamble is the author of two books and a dozen articles on Native American. 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.
Dr. Gamble holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Fresno State College, a Master's degree in Linguistics from California State University, Fresno and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley.