Histories of Capitalism and Race in the Middle East and Indian Ocean

This paper, based on Prof. Travers' recently-published book (Cambridge, 2022), reinterprets the transition from Mughal to British rule in eighteenth-century eastern India, showing how colonial state-builders sought to expropriate and transform precolonial, Persianate routines for doing justice to petitioning subjects.

Iran’s nationalisation of oil in 1951 is popularly championed as an important episode of anti-colonialism in the Middle East.

At the crossroads of gender studies, sport history and Ghana history, this research focuses on young African women’s participation in sports