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 Marilyn Lake FBA

Marlyn Lake FBA's areas of research include settler colonialism and the British empire, campaigns for racial and gender equality, labour history and the impact of war on the home front.

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Professor Sir Hew Strachan FBA

European military history of the 19th and 20th centuries, and especially the First World War; modern strategic studies

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Professor Lyndal Roper FBA

The social & cultural history of sixteenth & seventeenth century Germany; gender history; witchcraft; the German Reformation

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