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 Bonnie Honig FBA

Bonnie Honig, a political theorist from Montréal, Québec, specialises in classical/contemporary literature and drama, film and political theory, as well as immigration politics, emergency politics, and the politics of public things.

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Professor Vivienne Shue FBA

Chinese politics and society in the 20th and 21st centuries; political economy of development, institutions and practices of the state, local governance, and patterns of state-society interaction

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Professor Richard Little FBA

International Relations theory; historiography; Realism and English school thinking; intervention into civil wars; the balance of power; the historical evolution of the international society

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