Sujit Sivasundaram is a British Sri Lankan historian and academic.
17 Facts About Sujit Sivasundaram
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Sujit Sivasundaram is currently professor of world history at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
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Sujit Sivasundaram is the great grand son of Lawrie Muthu Krishna, editor of the Ceylonese newspaper and founder of The Polytechnic vocational school.
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Sujit Sivasundaram is the grandson of Mano Muthu Krishna-Candappa, journalist and advocate for women's advancement in Sri Lanka.
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Sujit Sivasundaram has MPhil and PhD degrees from Cambridge.
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Sujit Sivasundaram 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.
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Sujit Sivasundaram taught south Asian and imperial history at the London School of Economics between 2008 and 2010.
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Sujit Sivasundaram was director of the Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge and director of graduate studies at the Faculty of History, Cambridge.
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Sujit Sivasundaram is currently a fellow and professor of world history at Gonville and Caius College.
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Sujit Sivasundaram supervises MPhil and PhD students of world and imperial history.
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Sujit Sivasundaram was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for medieval, early modern and modern history in 2012.
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Sujit Sivasundaram was a fellow and council member of the Royal Historical Society.
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Sujit Sivasundaram was co-editor of The Historical Journal and was associate editor of the Journal of British Studies.
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Sujit Sivasundaram is on the editorial boards of History Australia, The International History Review and Medical History.
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Sujit Sivasundaram won the 2021 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for Waves Across the South.
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Sujit Sivasundaram's 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.
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Sujit Sivasundaram was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023.