What is Elliot Sperling?
[[File:Elliot Sperling 2014 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Elliot Sperling in May 2014]] '''Elliot Sperling''' (January 4, 1951 &ndash; January 29, 2017) was an [[Americans|American]] [[historian]] and [[academic]]. He was one of the world's leading historians of [[Tibet]] and Tibetan-[[China|Chinese]] relations. He was also a well known [[human rights]] [[activist]]. He spent almost thirty years at [[Indiana University]]'s Department of Central Eurasian Studies. He was born in [[New York City]]. On February 2, 2017, it was announced that Sperling died in late January at the age of 66.<ref>{{Cite web|title=World Uyghur Congress Devastated at Loss of Professor Elliot Sperling|url=http://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/?p=30727|work=Uyghur Congress|date=February 2, 2017|access-date=February 3, 2017|archive-date=February 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203134508/http://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/?p=30727|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sperling, Elliot}} [[Category:1951 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Academics from Indiana]] [[Category:American historians]] [[Category:American human rights activists]] [[Category:Writers from New York City]] [[Category:American translators]] {{US-bio-stub}}