Sadiah Qureshi
Sadiah Qureshi, FRHistS, is a Professor, holding a Chair in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. She is an expert on race, science and empire in the modern world.
Education
[edit]Qureshi was awarded all of her degrees from the University of Cambridge. Her DPhil (2005) thesis was entitled Living Curiosities: Human Ethnological Exhibitions in London, 1800-1855.[1] She received her MPhil in 2001, and began her academic career with first-class honours degree in the Natural Sciences.[2] [3][4]
Career
[edit]Following her DPhil, Qureshi held a postdoctoral research fellowship with the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group on a five-year Leverhulme funded project entitled ‘Past versus Present: Abandoning the Past in an Age of Progress’, which explored Victorian notions of the past.
In 2013, her book, Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2011) was joint winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Award for best first book published in Victorian Studies. In 2012, she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Medieval, Early Modern and Modern History from the Leverhulme Trust in recognition of her outstanding research.[4] Qureshi is working on the history of extinction for her second book, Vanished: Episodes in the History of Extinction. She received a mid-career fellowship from the British Academy for this project.
Qureshi is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She contributed to the RHS's Race, Ethnicity & Equality Working Group to examine the challenges facing black and minority ethnic historians in UK higher education.[5] Qureshi has contributed to media outlets such as the New Statesman, The Conversation and the London Review of Books.
Bibliography
[edit]- Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain. 2011, University of Chicago Press.
- ''Star-Spangled Racism'' New Statesman, 2017, pp. 44–45.
- ''We Prefer their Company'' London Review of Books, 2017, pp. 39–40.
- 'Peopling the landscape: Showmen, displayed peoples and travel illustration in nineteenth-century Britain', Early Popular Visual Culture, 2012, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 23–36.
- 'Robert Gordon Latham, Displayed Peoples and the Natural History of Race, 1854-1866', The Historical Journal, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 143–166.
- 'Displaying Sara Baartman, the ‘Hottentot Venus’', History of Science, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 233–257
See also
[edit]- Human zoo, one of her areas of study
- Victorian era
References
[edit]- ^ "Living curiosities: human ethnological exhibitions in London, 1800–1855". idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ "Displaying Sara Baartman, 'The Hottentot Venus'". idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ "Media Diversifed". 17 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Sadiah Qureshi". David Higham Associates. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ "Race, Ethnicity & Equality Group | Historical Transactions". Retrieved 12 October 2021.
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