Professor Christopher Shackle FBA

Oriental and African Studies
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1990

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia, University of London

Past appointments

Soas, University Of London Pro-Director for Academic Affairs

1997 - 2003

University of London Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia

1985 - 2008

Soas, University Of London Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia, University of London

1985 -

Birkbeck College University of London Reader in Modern Languages of South Asia

1979 - 1985

Soas, University Of London Lecturer in Urdu and Panjabi

1969 - 1979

Publications

The Siriaki language of central Pakistan 1976

A Guru Nanak glossary 1981

Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa (2 vols), 1996

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Andrew Gerstle FBA

The cultural and social history of 17th-19th century Japan, with particular reference to Bunraku and Kabuki theatres, popular literature, sexuality and the visual arts

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Professor Rosalind (Polly) O’Hanlon FBA

The early modern and colonial history of India; histories of empire, with particular reference to caste and gender; problems in intellectual history and historical methodology in the postcolonial world; history, language and culture of Maharashtra

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Professor Elizabeth Anne Lambourn FBA

Material culture and history of the Indian Ocean world before 1500

Elizabeth Anne Lambourn (credit Mikael Wallerstedt)

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