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Sujit Sivasundaram FBA Gonville and Caius College , University of Cambridge .
Early life
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Sivasundaram was born in Sri Lanka .[1] Ceylonese newspaper and founder of The Polytechnic vocational school .[2] [3] [4] [5]
Sivasundaram was educated at S. Thomas' Preparatory School and the Colombo International School .[1] [2] 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] MPhil (1998) and PhD (2001) degrees from Cambridge.[6]
Career
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Sivasundaram joined Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 2001 as a research fellow before becoming a lecturer .[2] [7] 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] London School of Economics between 2008 and 2010.[8] [9] National Maritime Museum , Greenwich.[1] [6] [1] fellow and professor of world history at Gonville and Caius College.[1] [1]
Sivasundaram was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for medieval, early modern and modern history in 2012.[1] [6] [10] Royal Historical Society (RHS).[1] [6] [11] [1] [12] The Historical Journal Journal of British Studies [1] [6] editorial boards of History Australia , The International History Review 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] Fellow of the British Academy in 2023.[15]
Works
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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
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^ Sivasundaram, Sujit (19 January 2002). "Still thriving at hundred" . The Island . Retrieved 2 November 2019 .
^ "Tackling Key Questions" . The Sunday Times . Retrieved 2 November 2019 .
^ Karunaratne, Ilica Malkanthi (1 October 2017). "Mano Muthukrishna Candappa: A pioneer in many avenues" . Sunday Observer . 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 . 29 November 2017. 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 .
^ " . Books+Publishing . 28 October 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2021 .
^ "About us - Past and Present" . 16 June 2014.
^ "Professor Sujit Sivasundaram FBA" . The British Academy . Retrieved 21 October 2023 .
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