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 Rosemary Foot FBA
International Relations, with special reference to security studies in the Asia-Pacific, including US-China relations, human rights, Asian regional institutions, and East Asian regional governance
Professor Henrietta Harrison FBA
The social and cultural history of China from the Qing through to the present, especially rural north China, links between transnational and local history, religion, diplomacy and revolution
Professor Rana Mitter FBA
The history and politics of modern China; history of twentieth-century China, in particular the Republican period (1912-1949) and Cold War; contemporary Chinese nationalism and Sino-Japanese relations
