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Sadiah Qureshi

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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

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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

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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

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ "Living curiosities: human ethnological exhibitions in London, 1800–1855". idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Displaying Sara Baartman, 'The Hottentot Venus'". idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Media Diversifed". 17 January 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Sadiah Qureshi". David Higham Associates. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Race, Ethnicity & Equality Group | Historical Transactions". Retrieved 12 October 2021.