Professor Pekka Hämäläinen FBA

Early and 19th-century North America; Indigenous, colonial, environmental, and borderlands history; comparative and global histories of empires, Indigenous and nomadic societies in world history
Headshot of Professor Pekka Johannes Hämäläinen FBA (credit Vendi Jukić Buča)
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current posts

University of Oxford Rhodes Professor of American History

St Catherine’s College, Oxford Fellow

Photo credit: Vendi Jukić Buča

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Professor Clare Anderson FBA

History of punishment and penal colonies; colonial criminal justice systems; forced labour and migration; empires and aftermaths; maritime history; global history

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The history of the late-18th and early-19th century "Age of Revolution", with a particular emphasis on political culture and the French Revolution

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Professor Annabel Brett FBA

History of later medieval and early modern political thought, focusing on philosophy of rights, law, nature, political community and international law

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