Professor Derek Peterson FBA
Intellectual and cultural history of eastern Africa; the composition of books; the politics of archives; the infrastructure of religious experience; the social practice of non-conformity; Idi Amin
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2016
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship in African Studies (2016)
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
- Website
- https://derekrpeterson.com
Current post
Professor of History and African Studies, University of Michigan
Past appointments
University of Michigan Professor of History and African Studies
1970 -
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor John Healey FBA
Aramaic inscriptions of the Roman-period Near East (especially Nabataen & Syriac); associated historical, religious & legal studies; early development of the Arabic script; Ugaritic, Hebrew & Syriac philology & literature
