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Professor Joya Chatterji FBA

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2018
Subjects
History
Sections
Modern History from 1850
Website
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-joya-chatterji

Current post

Professor of South Asian History, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge

Five Fellows of the British Academy respond to the free speech debate

2 May 2019

As campus conversations around hate speech, no-platforming, censorship and safe spaces routinely make newspaper headlines, five Fellows of the British Academy provide their perspectives on the debate.

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Professor Ute Frevert FBA

Modern European history; history of emotions; Social, gender and political history

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Professor Rosalind (Polly) O’Hanlon FBA

The early modern and colonial history of India; histories of empire, with particular reference to caste and gender; problems in intellectual history and historical methodology in the postcolonial world; history, language and culture of Maharashtra

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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

Dipesh Chakrabarty FBA (credit Swiss Radio and Television Service)

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