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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Mr Robin Briggs FBA

The social, religious and political history of early modern Europe, especially France; the French Catholic Church and the history of witchcraft

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Dr Susan Brigden FBA

The English Renaissance and Reformation; literary coteries; Reformation diplomacy

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Professor Amanda Vickery FBA

The history of women and gender, love and power, house and home in Britain c 1660-1837; the spatial history of London c 1688-1832; women, beauty and the economy of appearances, 1945-1975; the categories and chronology of women's history

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