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 Francesca Orsini FBA
Literatures of South Asia; multilingual and located approach to world literature; book history in South Asia
Professor Timothy Greenwood FBA
History and culture of Late Antique and medieval Armenia, including interactions with institutions, communities and traditions in Sasanian Iran, Byzantium and the Islamic Middle East.
Professor Harri Englund FBA
African-language political and moral thought; the historical-linguistic translation of freedom, equality and human rights; the racial and humanitarian politics of Christian missions in 19th-century Africa
