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 Martin Rudwick FBA

History of earth sciences, especially the reconstruction of the earth's pre-human history, 1750-1850; the history of visual imagery in the natural sciences; epistemic issues in field- and museum-based sciences

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Professor William Doyle FBA

History of eighteenth century Europe, particularly France

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Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam FBA

History of South Asia and the Indian Ocean world; early modern empires and their interaction in the framework of 'connected histories'

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