Spencer Pennington

Spencer Pennington

Graduate Student

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Biography

Spencer Pennington is a Ph.D candidate whose work focuses on the history of the different religious communities in British North India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  His academic training is in both history and religious studies and, prior to becoming an academic, his professional background was in video game development.

Field of Study

South and Southeast Asia

Subfield

History of religion, Religious studies, comparative religion, mysticism

Collaborators

Dr. Vinay Lal, Dr. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, and Dr. Stefania Tutino

Advisor(s)

Dr. Nile Green

Degrees

B.A., History, Western Washington University (2017)
M.A., South Asian Studies, University of Washington (2019)
C. Phil. History, University of California, Los Angeles (2024)