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 Eleanor Robson FBA
History of literacy, numeracy and knowledge in ancient Middle Eastern cuneiform cultures; history and politics of archaeology and heritage in modern Iraq; open-access digital humanities approaches to cuneiform
