Elliot Sperling
Elliot Sperling | |
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Sperling at PEN America/ Free Expression Literature, May 2014. | |
| Born | January 4, 1951 |
| Died | January 29, 2017 (aged 66) |
| Alma mater | Queens College |
Elliot Sperling (January 4, 1951 – January 29, 2017) was one of the world's leading historians of Tibet and Tibetan-Chinese relations, and a MacArthur Fellow. He spent most of his scholarly career as an associate professor at Indiana University's Department of Central Eurasian Studies, with seven years as the department's chair.