Professor Sujit Sivasundaram FBA

World history, especially since 1750: sciences and environments; race and racisms; the Indian and Pacific Oceans; Sri Lanka and South and Southeast Asia; material cultures; cities; human-animal relations; empires
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current post

University of Cambridge Professor of World History

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellow

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Marianne Elliott FBA

History, Ireland, France, Religion and Conflict

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Professor Margot Finn FBA

British history in the 18th and 19th centuries, including material culture, gender, law and colonialism

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Professor Gavin Flood FBA

Hindu religious literature in the Middle Ages (post-Gupta period); comparative religion, with particular reference to Hinduism and Christianity; philosophical phenomenology and hermeneutics

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