- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2020
- Website
- https://gkbhambra.net/
Gurminder K Bhambra is Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Sussex. Prior to this, she was Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex. She has also been Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and Guest Professor of History and Sociology at the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University in Sweden. While her research interests are primarily in the area of global historical sociology, she is also interested in the intersection of the social sciences more generally with recent work in postcolonial and decolonial studies. Among her publications are Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination, which won the 2008 BSA's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for best first book, and Connected Sociologies, which is available open access. Her current projects focus on concerns with epistemological justice and reparations and on the political economy of race and colonialism. Specifically, she is currently working on a project on tax and welfare within the British empire and also has a co-authored book on Colonialism and Modern Social Theory forthcoming with Polity Press.
Current post
University of Sussex Professor of Historical Sociology
Past appointments
School of Global Studies, University of Sussex Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies
2017 - 2023
Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Guest Professor of Sociology and History
2016 - 2017
University of Warwick Professor of Sociology
2012 - 2017
University of Warwick Assistant Professor; Associate Professor of Sociology
2007 - 2012
Top picks
Gurminder K Bhambra on Postcolonial Social Science
Podcast
Listen to Gurminder K Bhambra on the Social Science Bites podcast
Perspectives: Everything you know about Brexit is wrong
Video
As part of TEDxBrum, Gurminder K Bhambra deeply explores the idea of Britain as a nation and challenges dominant narratives on the recent vote for Britain to leave the European Union
Publications
Historical Sociology, Modernity, and Postcolonial Critique
Gurminder K Bhambra - Published in 2011 by The American Historical Review
Vol 116
