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
Dr Annabel Teh Gallop FBA
Writing traditions, book cultures and the art of the Qur’an in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean world; Malay and Indonesian manuscripts, letters, documents and seals, and comparative Islamic diplomatics
Professor James Montgomery FBA
Classical Arabic literature, literary translation, literary history, history of ideas.
Professor Janet Watson FBA
The documentation and morpho-syntactic description of modern Arabic dialects and Modern South Arabian languages; theoretical phonology and morphology with reference to Arabic and Modern South Arabian
