Jonathan Spencer Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Jonathan Spencer is a social anthropologist from the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh and currently Head of Subject. He is also a professor of the Anthropology of South Asia. His field of interest include nationalism, politics, violence, Buddhism and Sri Lanka. He has published many works on politics of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan civil war.Jonathan Spencer has also made significant contributions to the history and theory of anthropology. Together with his University of Edinburgh colleague, Alan Barnard, the two have produced a history of anthropological theory which continues to be a widely used textbook at institutions of higher education.
Faculty at The New York Studio for Stage and Screen in Asheville, North Carolina (2015).
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Executor At Large of the Healing Light Film Festival in Asheville, North Carolina (2014).
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Played a set with Bloodkin in Bozeman, Montana Summer 2013 as a guest bassist.
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His band with Laura Slade Wiggins backed-up Kevn Kinney and REM's Peter Buck on a Northwest tour in July 2012. He and Laura played bass guitar and sang backing vocals respectively, along with playing a mini-set of their own backed by Peter Buck. All 4 members have deep connections to Athens, Georgia. Jonathan has made multiple appearances playing bass as a guest of Kevn Kinney's band Drivin N Cryin.
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He was the MC and host for Guadalcanal Diary's 30th Anniversary concert on New Year's Eve 2011 in Marietta, Georgia with the Dex Romweber Duo. He appears in the documentary as a burnout hippie busker (with the full permission of the band) playing a bass ukulele outside the theater before the show.
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Often plays bass guitar with The Tripp Rezac Band and The Beachwood Canyon Rockers at The Piano Bar in Hollywood.
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Grew-up in Atlanta, Georgia with actors Brian Baumgartner and Ed Helms of The Office (2005) and Truth & Salvage Co.'s Walker Young.
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Attended elementary school at Holy Innocent's Episcopal School in Sandy Springs, Georgia from age 3-12.
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Attended middle and high school at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia from age 12-16.
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Graduated high school from Woodward Academy in College Park, Georgia.
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Appeared as a special guest, playing bass, with Drivin n Cryin on New Year's Eve 2009 and 2010.
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Since 2007, he has played in a band in Los Angeles with Laura Slade Wiggins, star of Showtime's Shameless (2011). They met in Athens, Georgia, when Laura was still in high school, during casting of the film Dance of the Dead.
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Worked at a talent agency and as a casting director.
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Plays bass guitar through a "bigmuff" sound effects pedal. sometimes credited as "Jonny Bigmuff".
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Collects '60s Gibson electric basses and guitars.
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Grand nephew of actress Sarah Cunningham and her husband the late John Randolph.
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Played Jonny Y2K on the morning drive-time radio program, The Regular Guys, on WKLS 96Rock in Atlanta, Georgia 1999-2000.