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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
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East , Early Modern History to 1850
Website
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-sujit-sivasundaram

Current post

University of Cambridge Professor of World History

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellow

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Material culture and history of the Indian Ocean world before 1500

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Maritime Studies; Ethnography; Material Culture; Arabic Semantics; Socio-Cultural History

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