Professor Gurminder K Bhambra FBA

Summary

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.