Dr John Darwin FBA
The history of empires, expecially the British Empire in its global setting. The rise & decline of imperial port-cities, 1830s-1930s
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2012
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Modern History from 1850
Summary
John Darwin was awarded a CBE for services to the study of Global History in 2020.
Current post
Professor of Global and Imperial History, Nuffield College, Oxford
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Martin Rudwick FBA
History of earth sciences, especially the reconstruction of the earth's pre-human history, 1750-1850; the history of visual imagery in the natural sciences; epistemic issues in field- and museum-based sciences
Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty FBA
Modern South Asian culture and history; Postcolonial theory; the problem of Eurocentrism in historical thought; histories of history; climate change and the humanities; planetary histories
Professor Barak Kushner FBA
Barak Kushner was educated at Brandeis University and Princeton University in the United States. He is currently Professor of East Asian history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Corpus Christi College.
