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

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Professor William Doyle FBA

History of eighteenth century Europe, particularly France

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Professor Dominic Lieven FBA

History Political History Eastern Europe including Russia Russia History of a specific country Russia

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Professor Richard McCabe FBA

Early modern literature in its historical and intellectual contexts, especially poetry and drama; Edmund Spenser's engagement with Gaelic Ireland, the dynamics of Tudor and Jacobean patronage, the aesthetics of Renaissance tragedy.

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