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
Headshot of Professor Sujit Pradin Sivasundaram FBA
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current post

University of Cambridge Professor of World History

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellow

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The history, intellectual culture, manuscripts and philology of the pre-modern Islamic world

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Professor Andrew Wood FBA

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