Recent Centre News :: Centre for History and Economics

Sunil Amrith, Birkbeck, University of London, a Prize Research Student at the Centre in 2001-2002, and an Associate Research Fellow of the Centre since 2006, on the award of a European Research Council grant for "the very best creative researchers of any nationality and age." His new project, Coastal Frontiers: Water, Power, and the Boundaries of South Asia, will be undertaken from 2012 to 2017.

Felix Waldmann, Gonville & Caius College, and a Prize Research Student at the Centre in 2010-2011, has been awarded the Quentin Skinner award in History for his MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History.

David Motadel, Gonville & Caius College, and a Prize Research Student at the Centre in 2007-2008, has been awarded the Prize of the German Historical Institute in London for an outstanding PhD thesis on German history. David was recently also awarded the 2011 Prize of the British International History Group for his PhD thesis.

Stephen Thompson, a Centre prize student in 2005-2006 and director of studies in 2010-2011, has been elected JH Plumb Fellow in History at Christ's College, Cambridge from Michaelmas 2011. His PhD dissertation was recently awarded the Ellen McArthur Prize in Economic History.

Gabriel Paquette, Research Associate at the Centre and Assistant Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University, edited and introduced (with Matthew Brown) a special issue of European History Quarterly, 'Europe and Latin America in the 1820s', which was published in July 2011. The introduction followed on from the Centre supported project Re-thinking the 1820s: Europe, Latin America, and the Persistence of Mutual Influence in a Decade of Transformation.

Ananya Kabir, a longstanding research associate at the Centre, has been appointed Professor of Humanities at the University of Leeds.

William Nelson, Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre in 2006-2008, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of Toronto from Autumn 2011.

Ananya Kabir, Research Associate at the Centre and Senior Lecturer in Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Leeds, has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship to complete her book Partition's Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971 and Modern South Asia. The book will be an exploration of post-Partition interplays of memory and forgetting in modern South Asia, including extended consideration of Dr Kabir's own family history and family archives.

Pedro Ramos-Pinto, Research Associate at the Centre since 2007, has been appointed Lecturer in International History at the University of Manchester from Autumn 2011.

The Centre for History and Economics has been based, since October 1 2010, at Magdalene College and King's College. Our new offices are at 2, Adams Road, Cambridge and in Magdalene College (from December). The telephone numbers and email addresses are unchanged.

Emma Rothschild will be Honorary Professor of History and Economics at the University of Cambridge from October 1 2010, and a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Gareth Stedman Jones will be Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London from October 1 2010, and a Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.