Professor Mahmood Mamdani FBA
Colonialism and post-colonialism; civil wars and extreme violence in Africa; political violence and political justice; decolonization of the university and higher education, War on Terror
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2017
Current post
Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University; Professor and Executive Director, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta FBA
Modern political theory, Indian constitutional law and Indian intellectual history; current projects include "Constitutionalism in Modern India" and ideas of "God and Religion in Modern Indian Intellectual History"
Professor Dr Rainer Forst FBA
Moral philosophy (especially Kantian theories, constructivism); political theory (especially theories of justice, democracy, toleration and power); critical theory of society (especially theories of critique)
Professor Charles Tripp FBA
Politics in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq & Egypt; Islamic political thought; the relationship between art & power in the Middle East.
