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Professor Jonathan Spencer FBA

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2018
Subjects
Anthropology, Geography
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East , Anthropology and Geography
Website
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/social_anthropology/spencer_jonathan

Current post

Regius Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society, University of Edinburgh

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