Sujit Sivasundaram | |
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Born | June 1976
Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
Sujit Sivasundaram FBA is a British Sri Lankan historian and academic. He is currently professor of world history at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
Sivasundaram was born in Sri Lanka. [1] He is the great grand son of Lawrie Muthu Krishna, editor of the Ceylonese newspaper and founder of The Polytechnic vocational school. [2] [3] He is the grandson of Mano Muthu Krishna-Candappa, journalist and advocate for women's advancement in Sri Lanka. [4] [5]
Sivasundaram was educated at S. Thomas' Preparatory School and the Colombo International School. [1] [2] After school he joined the University of Cambridge on a scholarship in 1994 to study engineering but later switched to history and graduated in 1997 with a BA degree. [1] [2] [6] He also has MPhil (1998) and PhD (2001) degrees from Cambridge. [6]
Sivasundaram joined Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 2001 as a research fellow before becoming a lecturer. [2] [7] He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and a visiting senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore and the University of Sydney. [1] He taught south Asian and imperial history at the London School of Economics between 2008 and 2010. [8] [9] Between 2015 and 2017 he was Sackler Caird Fellow at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. [1] [6] He was director of the Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge and director of graduate studies at the Faculty of History, Cambridge. [1] He is currently a fellow and professor of world history at Gonville and Caius College. [1] He supervises MPhil and PhD students of world and imperial history. [1]
Sivasundaram was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for medieval, early modern and modern history in 2012. [1] [6] [10] He was a fellow and council member of the Royal Historical Society (RHS). [1] [6] [11] He delivered the 2019 RHS Prothero Lecture. [1] [12] He was co-editor of The Historical Journal and was associate editor of the Journal of British Studies. [1] [6] He is on the editorial boards of History Australia, The International History Review and Medical History. [1]
He won the 2021 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for Waves Across the South. His prize citation noted that the book was 'a riot of ingenuity, a truly powerful and new history of revolutions and empires, re-imagined through the environmental lens of the sea.' [13]
He is a member of the Editorial Board for Past & Present. [14] He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023. [15]
Sivasundaram has written numerous books and articles including:
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Sujit Sivasundaram | |
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Born | June 1976
Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
Sujit Sivasundaram FBA is a British Sri Lankan historian and academic. He is currently professor of world history at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
Sivasundaram was born in Sri Lanka. [1] He is the great grand son of Lawrie Muthu Krishna, editor of the Ceylonese newspaper and founder of The Polytechnic vocational school. [2] [3] He is the grandson of Mano Muthu Krishna-Candappa, journalist and advocate for women's advancement in Sri Lanka. [4] [5]
Sivasundaram was educated at S. Thomas' Preparatory School and the Colombo International School. [1] [2] After school he joined the University of Cambridge on a scholarship in 1994 to study engineering but later switched to history and graduated in 1997 with a BA degree. [1] [2] [6] He also has MPhil (1998) and PhD (2001) degrees from Cambridge. [6]
Sivasundaram joined Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 2001 as a research fellow before becoming a lecturer. [2] [7] He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and a visiting senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore and the University of Sydney. [1] He taught south Asian and imperial history at the London School of Economics between 2008 and 2010. [8] [9] Between 2015 and 2017 he was Sackler Caird Fellow at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. [1] [6] He was director of the Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge and director of graduate studies at the Faculty of History, Cambridge. [1] He is currently a fellow and professor of world history at Gonville and Caius College. [1] He supervises MPhil and PhD students of world and imperial history. [1]
Sivasundaram was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for medieval, early modern and modern history in 2012. [1] [6] [10] He was a fellow and council member of the Royal Historical Society (RHS). [1] [6] [11] He delivered the 2019 RHS Prothero Lecture. [1] [12] He was co-editor of The Historical Journal and was associate editor of the Journal of British Studies. [1] [6] He is on the editorial boards of History Australia, The International History Review and Medical History. [1]
He won the 2021 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for Waves Across the South. His prize citation noted that the book was 'a riot of ingenuity, a truly powerful and new history of revolutions and empires, re-imagined through the environmental lens of the sea.' [13]
He is a member of the Editorial Board for Past & Present. [14] He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023. [15]
Sivasundaram has written numerous books and articles including:
Do not use Template:Google scholar in articles as Google links are not appropriate for an encyclopedia.