Sujit Sivasundaram

Sujit Sivasundaram

FBA
BornJune 1976
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Academic work
InstitutionsGonville 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.

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c d Sadanandan, Renuka (8 May 2016). "Framing an island". The Sunday Times. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  3. ^ Sivasundaram, Sujit (19 January 2002). "Still thriving at hundred". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Tackling Key Questions". The Sunday Times. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 20 December 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  5. ^ Karunaratne, Ilica Malkanthi (1 October 2017). "Mano Muthukrishna Candappa: A pioneer in many avenues". Sunday Observer. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Professor Sujit Sivasundaram". Cambridge, U.K.: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  7. ^ "Caius Fellow leads vibrant Centre of South Asian Studies". Cambridge, U.K.: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. 19 November 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Dr Sujit Sivasundaram". Cambridge, U.K.: Consortium for the Global South, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  9. ^ "Sujit Sivasundaram". London, U.K.: David Higham Associates. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  10. ^ "Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2012". London, U.K.: Leverhulme Trust. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  11. ^ "Council: Dr Sujit Sivasundaram". London, U.K.: Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  12. ^ "Caius Historian Gives Prothero Lecture". Cambridge, U.K.: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  13. ^ "'Waves Across the South' wins British Academy Book Prize". Books+Publishing. 28 October 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  14. ^ https://pastandpresent.org.uk/about-us/
  15. ^ "Professor Sujit Sivasundaram FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 21 October 2023.

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