Professor Gary Gerstle FBA

Political thought, institutions, and conflict in 19th and 20th century US; immigration, race, and nationhood in America from founding to present
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017

Current post

Paul Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Simon Schaffer FBA

Social & intellectual history of experimental philosophy & exact sciences between the seventeenth & nineteenth centuries; historiography & sociology of scientific knowledge; the sciences & European imperialism

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Professor Shirin Rai FBA

Political economy of social reproduction and its costs; gendered global governance; political institutions and/as performance

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Professor Rebecca Earle FBA

History of food; colonial and 19th-century Spanish America; history of the body; colonialism, race and identity in early-modern Europe and the Americas; cultural nationalism in Spanish America; history of clothing

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