Modern World History

• Maliha Ahmed
• Armand Azra bin Azlira
• Medha Bhattachry
• Mairead Costello
• Caroline Cox
• Danielle Davenport
• Jonathan Franco
• Roger Enock
• Liam Frahm
• Chloë Mayoux
• Celine Mitchell
• Omar Nasr
• Michele Pajero
• Fergus Richardson-Soar
• Isami Sawai

2021/22

• 28 March 2022: Professor Laura Robson (Penn State) - Displaced Workers? The Question of Labour and the Making of a Global Refugee Regime 
• 28 October 2021: Professor Marc David Baer (LSE International History) and Dr Dina Gusejnova (LSE International History) - Book Launch: The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs

2020/21

• 11 January 2021: Dr Raghav Kishore, Dr Prashant Kidambi (Leicester) and Dr Sheetal Chhabria (Connecticut College) - Book Launch: The (Un)Governable City: Productive Failure in the Making of Colonial Delhi, 1858-1911
• 29 October 2020: Workshop for research grant application with Dr Jake Subryan Richards, Enslavement and Abolition in the Legal Regimes and Material Cultures of the Atlantic World, c. 1670-1870

2019/20

• 3 March 2020: Dr Isabella Jackson (Trinity College Dublin), Dr Ronald C. Po, Dr Pete Millwood - LSE Festival: Engaging a Risen China by Understanding its Past
• 18 February 2020: Professor Andrew Rotter (Colgate University) - Empire Envisioned: The Sense of Sight in Imperial India and the Philippines
• 12 February 2020: Dr Maria Rashid (SOAS) - Cultures of War seminar series organised with LSE International Relations: Mediating Militarism through Affect: The Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army
• 11 February 2020: Professor Patricia Clavin (Oxford) - Annual International History Lecture: LSE and the Genesis of Global Governance
• 10 February 2020: Professor Peter Burke (Cambridge), Professor Catherine Hall (UCL), Professor Mike Savage (LSE Sociology), Professor Jürgen Osterhammel (Konstanz) and Dr David Motadel - Book Launch: The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire
• 6 February 2020: Dr Sara Lorenzini (University of Trento) - Department of International History and LSE IDEAS: Book Launch: Global Development: A Cold War History
• 30 October 2019: Dr Imaobong Umoren, Christina Ivey (LSE Government) and Eileen Gbagbo (LSE International Relations) - Black History Month: Négritude: From Poetry to Politics
• 24 October 2019: Professor Ervand Abrahamian (City University of New York) - Annual Gulf History Lecture: The 1979 Revolution in Iran: important or not?

2018/19

• 19 March 2019: Dr Megan Black, The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power (book launch).
• 28 February 2019: Dr Padraic X. Scanlan, The Universal Thump: Slavery, Emancipation and Captivity in the British Empire (discussion of draft article) .
• 1 February 2019: Dr Taylor C. Sherman, The Great March of Democracy (book launch at LSE with Dr SY Quraishi, Karamjit Singh and Mukulika Banerjee).

2017/18

• 20 March 2018: Dr Jack Hogan, Northern Rhodesia in the Early Twentieth Century: "Of Deviants and District Commissioners: The Difficult Adolescence of a Settler Colony" (paper presentation).
• 15 March 2018: Dr Taylor C. Sherman, "Nehru's India: Seven Myths" (paper presentation).

• Antony Best (2020) British Engagement with Japan, 1854–1922 
The Origins and Course of an Unlikely Alliance. Routledge, London, UK.
• Antony Best (ed., 2010) The International History of East Asia, 1900-1968: Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order. Routledge, London, UK.
• Joanna Lewis (2021) Women of the Somali Diaspora. Refugees, Resilience and Rebuilding after Conflict. Hurst Publishers, London, UK
• Joanna Lewis (2018) Empire of Sentiment. The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism, Cambridge University Press,  Cambridge, UK.
• David Motadel (2014) Islam and Nazi Germany’s War, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA., USA.
• Padraic X. Scanlan (2017) Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolutions, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
• Kirsten E. Schulze and Joseph Chinyong Liow (2018) “Making Jihadis, Waging Jihad: Transnational and Local Dimensions of the ISIS Phenomenon in Indonesia and Malaysia” Asian Security (online access, print version forthcoming)
• Taylor C. Sherman (2015) Muslim Belonging in Secular India: Negotiating Citizenship in Postcolonial Hyderabad (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Professor Marc David Baer, 2018-19: Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship Award

This award will allow Professor Baer, a scholar of the connected histories of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Europe and Middle East, from the early modern era to the modern, to complete his work on the project “Guided by Goethe: German-Jewish Gay Muslim Writer Hugo Marcus, 1880-1966”. German Jew Hugo Marcus (1880-1966) is the only man to have played an important role in the world’s first gay rights movement and in establishing Islam in Europe. His life and work shed new light on the history of Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the gay rights struggle. Despite his significance, Marcus is relatively unknown. What is published about him does not incorporate his being German, Jewish, Muslim, and gay. Professor Baer plans to utilise his twelve-month Leverhulme Research Fellowship to write the first biography of Marcus, based on his German-language publications, speeches, private correspondence, and personal documents.

Dr Joanna Lewis, 2018-19: Award winner of IGA-Rockefeller Grant

Dr Joanna Lewis was awarded an LSE Institute of Global Affairs-Rockefeller Grant for two years to lead a project on Somalia, entitled “‘Pathways to Resilience’: The Role of an Urban Diaspora in Post-Conflict Reconstruction, London and Hargeisa, 1991 to the Present Day.” The project will be based at the Firoz Lalji LSE Centre for Africa.

 Dr David Motadel, 2018-19: Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner

Dr Ronald C. Po, 2017: LSE Santander Travel Research Fund

Dr Po was awarded a LSE Santander Travel Research Fund in December 2016 to visit universities in Hong Kong and South Korea, from late June to July 2017, where he  gave talks and seminars. He also conducted archival research to develop his new project, entitled “A Global History of Camphor: From an Oleoresin to a Commodity", and attend two international conferences, namely the AAS-in-Asia Conference (in Seoul) and the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) in Chingmai. Both highly regarded in the field of Asian studies.