Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA Distinguished Professor of History and Irving and Jean Stone Chair in Social Sciences, has been elected a fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and social sciences.
The academy announced Subrahmanyam's election during its annual meeting on July 14, when it recognized 66 academics from around the world for their outstanding contributions to research in the humanities and social sciences, including law, linguistics, economics and history.
In 2004, Subrahmanyam joined UCLA and served as founding director of UCLA's Center for India and South Asia from 2005 to 2011. He teaches courses on medieval and early modern South Asian and Indian Ocean history; the history of European expansion, the comparative history of early modern empires; and world history. He also advises graduate students on Indian history, the history of the Iberian empires, and more generally on forms of "connected histories."
Since joining UCLA, Subrahmanyam served as chair in early modern global history at the Collège de France in Paris and received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Calcutta. He was joint managing editor of the Indian Economic and Social History Review for over a decade, and he has also served on the boards of a number of other journals in the United States, the U.K, France, Portugal and elsewhere.