# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elliot-sperling
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:57:10.304Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/elliot-sperling"
name: "Elliot Sperling"
slug: "elliot-sperling"
description: "Elliot Sperling 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."
tagline: "American historian (1951–2017)"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1951-01-04"
deathDate: "2017-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump