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

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Professor Andrew Pettegree FBA

History of the Reformation; book history (Universal Short Title Catalogue) and book collecting, history of libraries, media landscapes and the history of news

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Professor Robert J. Mayhew FBA

The interface of historical geography and intellectual history, in particular the intellectual history of British geography books, demography and migration, c 1660-1900

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Professor Derek Peterson FBA

Intellectual and cultural history of eastern Africa; the composition of books; the politics of archives; the infrastructure of religious experience; the social practice of non-conformity; Idi Amin

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