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)

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 Clive Holes FBA

Middle Eastern and African Languages and Literatures

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Professor Roel Sterckx FBA

Classical and literary Chinese language and philology; history, religion and thought of pre-imperial and early imperial China; text and manuscript studies (Warring States, Qin, and Han periods); the natural world in pre-modern China

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Professor Almut Hintze FBA

The languages, religions and history of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia with special attention to Zoroastrianism; Ancient and Middle Iranian philology and linguistics

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