Spooner, Brian

Studied at Oxford, taking Honour Moderations in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, a B.A. in Persian with Pahlavi (First Class Honours), and a DPhil. in Social Anthropology. He has worked with the British Institute of Persian Studies and the American Institute of Iranian Studies, Afghanistan Studies and Pakistan Studies and the American Research Institute in Turkey. He teaches the anthropology of the Middle East and globalisation at the University of Pennsylvania. Apart from publications on the Middle East he is the editor of Globalization: The Crucial Phase (2015, University of Pennsylvania Press).