Professor Kirti Chaudhuri FBA

History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1990
Subjects
History

Current post

Emeritus Professor of the History of the European Expansion, European University Institute, Florence, and Director, Centre for Comparative Studies in Provence

Past appointments

European University Institute, Florence Vasco da Gama Professor of the History of European Expansion

1991 - 1999

Soas, University Of London Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Economic History of Asia

1963 - 1991

Publications

The trading world of Asia and the English East India Company 1660-1760 1978

Trade and civilisation in the Indian Ocean: an economic history from the rise of Islam to 1750 1985

Asia before Europe: economy and civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the rise of Islam to 1750 1990

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Alison Shell FBA

Shakespeare and religion; Reformation and Counter-Reformation literature; the vernacular and neo-Latin writing of post-Reformation British Catholics; the literature of Anglicanism; early modern book history and manuscript studies.

Alison Shell FBA

Professor Mark Knights FBA

British and Imperial History 1600-1850; the history of corruption, from early modern to the present; the history of political discourse; print culture; satire and laughter; representation (political, textual and visual).

Mark-Knights-FBA

Professor Sujit Pradin Sivasundaram FBA

World history, especially since 1750: sciences and environments; race and racisms; the Indian and Pacific Oceans; Sri Lanka and South and Southeast Asia; material cultures; cities; human-animal relations; empires

Sujit Pradin Sivasundaram FBA

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