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 Annette Gordon-Reed FBA

The history of the American Revolution and the Early American Republic, 18th and 19th centuries; slavery In North America, 17th-19th centuries; Thomas Jefferson and the Age of Jefferson

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Professor Timothy Greenwood FBA

History and culture of Late Antique and medieval Armenia, including interactions with institutions, communities and traditions in Sasanian Iran, Byzantium and the Islamic Middle East.

Timothy Greenwood FBA

Professor Heonik Kwon FBA

The postcolonial Cold War; civil war memories in Vietnam and in Korea; death rituals and the politics of kinship; early fieldwork in indigenous Siberia; the heritage of internationalism in anthropology

Heonik Kwon FBA

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