Editing M. A. R. Barker (section)

==Later academic studies and career==
Barker attended the [[University of California, Berkeley]] for graduate studies, writing a dissertation on [[Klamath language]], collecting [[Modoc traditional narratives|traditional myths, legends, tales, and oral histories]] and later publishing a grammar and dictionary on the language.<ref name="bar3">{{cite book | last = Barker | first = M. A. R. | year=1963| pages =7–117| title=Klamath Texts. University of California Publications in Linguistics (No. 30) | publisher= [[University of California]] | location=Berkeley}} (21 Klamath myths collected in 1955-1957)</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.language-archives.org/language/kla |title=OLAC resources in and about the Klamath-Modoc language |publisher=Language-archives.org |date=February 8, 2011 |access-date=April 25, 2013}}</ref>

He taught at the Institute of Islamic Studies at [[McGill University]] from around 1958/59 until 1972 and became active in the development of Urdu and Baluchi instruction materials for English-speaking students following a period of two years from 1960 when he was attached to the [[University of the Punjab]].<ref>{{cite web | last = Rehman | first = Mumtazul Haque | date=July 2004 |title= The Story of Indo-Pakistani Muslim Community in Montreal, Quebec |url= https://mrsp.mcgill.ca/reports/pdfs/MuslimHistory.pdf | website=Montreal Religious Sites Project | publisher=McGill University  |access-date= January 11, 2025}}</ref> Some of these were still recommended university course study materials as of 2010.<ref>{{cite web | last = Pritchett | first = Frances |title= Readings in Urdu Literature (Spring 2010 Syllabus) |url= http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/readings_course.html |publisher= [[Columbia University]] |access-date= October 14, 2009}}</ref> From 1972 he moved to teach at the [[University of Minnesota]] in [[Minneapolis]], where he chaired the Department of South Asian studies until his retirement in the early 1990s; a few years after, the department was disbanded due to reduced funding.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/junghareIndira.php |title=Indira Junghare: Voices From the Gaps: University of Minnesota |publisher=Voices.cla.umn.edu |date=December 3, 2012 |access-date=April 25, 2013}}</ref>