Sri Lankan historian
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 .
Early life
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]
Career
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]
Works
Sivasundaram has written numerous books and articles including:
Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850 (2005, Cambridge University Press ; ISBN 9780521188883 , 0521188881 , 9780521848367 , 0521848369 )[1] [6]
Science, Race and Imperialism ed. with Marwa Elshakry in Victorian Science and Literature , Vol 6, eds. Bernard Lightman and Gowan Dawson (2012, Pickering & Chatto Publishers ; ISBN 9781848930926 , 1848930925 )[1] [6]
Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony (2013, University of Chicago Press ; 2014, Oxford University Press , Delhi; ISBN 9780198096245 , 0198096240 )[1] [6]
Oceanic Histories ed. with David Armitage and Alison Bashford (2017, Cambridge University Press; ISBN 9781108423182 , 1108423183 , 9781108434829 , 1108434827 )
Waves Across the South (2020, HarperCollins )[1]
'Materialities in the Making of World Histories: South Asia and the South Pacific' in Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture: World Perspectives ed. by Ivan Gaskell and Sarah Carter[1]
References
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Professor Sujit Sivasundaram" . Cambridge, U.K.: Faculty of History, University of Cambridge . Retrieved 2 November 2019 .
^ a b c d Sadanandan, Renuka (8 May 2016). "Framing an island" . The Sunday Times . Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2 November 2019 .
^ Sivasundaram, Sujit (19 January 2002). "Still thriving at hundred" . The Island . Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2 November 2019 .
^ "Tackling Key Questions" . The Sunday Times . Colombo, Sri Lanka. 20 December 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2019 .
^ Karunaratne, Ilica Malkanthi (1 October 2017). "Mano Muthukrishna Candappa: A pioneer in many avenues" . Sunday Observer . Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 10 November 2019 .
^ a b c d e f g h i "Professor Sujit Sivasundaram" . Cambridge, U.K.: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge . Retrieved 2 November 2019 .
^ "Caius Fellow leads vibrant Centre of South Asian Studies" . Cambridge, U.K.: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge . 19 November 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2019 .
^ "Dr Sujit Sivasundaram" . Cambridge, U.K.: Consortium for the Global South, University of Cambridge . Retrieved 2 November 2019 .
^ "Sujit Sivasundaram" . London, U.K.: David Higham Associates . Retrieved 2 November 2019 .
^ "Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2012" . London, U.K.: Leverhulme Trust . Retrieved 2 November 2019 .
^ "Council: Dr Sujit Sivasundaram" . London, U.K.: Royal Historical Society . Retrieved 2 November 2019 .
^ "Caius Historian Gives Prothero Lecture" . Cambridge, U.K.: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge . 19 June 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2019 .
^ " 'Waves Across the South' wins British Academy Book Prize" . Books+Publishing . 28 October 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2021 .
^ https://pastandpresent.org.uk/about-us/
^ "Professor Sujit Sivasundaram FBA" . The British Academy . Retrieved 21 October 2023 .
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