Pamela Gutman (1944 – 31 March 2015) was an Australian researcher, art historian, and civil servant.
[1] She completed her tertiary education at the University of Vienna, focusing on German, philosophy, and art history.
[4][5][6] In 1972, she began field research in Burma (now Myanmar) for her PhD thesis, Ancient Arakan, with Special Reference to Its Cultural History, 5th to 12th Centuries, completed in 1977.
[6] In 2001, she published Burma’s Lost Kingdoms: Splendours of Arakan, which is now a key reference for scholars of Rakhine State.
[7] At the time of her death, she had not yet completed a planned second edition of Burma’s Lost Kingdoms: Splendours of Arakan, and a biography of Gordon Luce, a British scholar of Burmese history.