Brian Spooner (anthropologist) explained

Birth Place:	Newbury Park, Ilford, Essex, U.K.
Nationality:	British
Field:	Cultural Anthropology
Alma Mater:	Oxford University

Brian J. Spooner is a Professor of Anthropology, Undergraduate Chair at Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and Curator of Near Eastern Ethnology at the Penn Museum. His many works are on subjects including Cultural and social anthropology; globalization, Islam, Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia; social organization, religion, ethnohistory, ecology, non-industrial economies.^[1]

Scientific career

Professor Spooner joined the faculty at University of Pennsylvania in 1968. He served as the Department of Anthropology's graduate chair 1985-8 and the University's Middle East Center Director from 1986-1995. He was Interim Co-Director of the Lauder Institute 2010 -2012, and is a Fellow at the Penn Institute of Urban Research and Affiliate Faculty at Penn's Graduate School of Education program on International Education Development.^[2] He has worked in Afghanistan,^[3] northwest China, Iran,^{[4] [5] [6] [7]} India, Kazakhstan, Pakistan,^[8] Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. His current research focuses on social change under globalization.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Brian Spooner | Department of Anthropology.
2. Web site: The Middle East Center at Penn. www.sas.upenn.edu. 17 November 2018.
3. Language Policy and Language Conflict in Afghanistan and its neighbors, edited with Harold F. Schiffman, Leiden: Brill, 2012.
4. Reading Nasta'liq: Persian and Urdu Hands 1500 to the Present, Costa Mesa CA: Mazda Publications, with William L. Hanaway, 1995, 2nd edition 2007.
5. Literacy in the Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order, edited with William L. Hanaway, Museum Publications, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
6. 1990- Editor for anthropology articles in the Encyclopaedia Iranica.
7. 1986 Fesenjan and kashk: culture and metaculture. In Franciszek Machalski Memorial Volume, edited by Peter Chelkowski. Folia Orientalia 22 (1981-4):245-258. Cracow: Polish Academy of Science.
8. 1997-2005 Editor, Pakistan Studies News (PSN), the biannual newsletter of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies.