Professor Pekka Hämäläinen FBA

Early and 19th-century North America; Indigenous, colonial, environmental, and borderlands history; comparative and global histories of empires, Indigenous and nomadic societies in world history
Headshot of Professor Pekka Johannes Hämäläinen FBA (credit Vendi Jukić Buča)
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current posts

University of Oxford Rhodes Professor of American History

St Catherine’s College, Oxford Fellow

Photo credit: Vendi Jukić Buča

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor David A. Bell FBA

The history of the late-18th and early-19th century "Age of Revolution", with a particular emphasis on political culture and the French Revolution

David Avrom Bell FBA

Professor Lauren Benton FBA

The global history of European empires; legal history of the British and Spanish empires; the history of international law; legal theory.

Lauren Benton FBA

Professor David Arnold FBA

Modern History; History of South Asia, History of Science; History of Medicine; Social History

David-Arnold-FBA

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