Elizabeth Lambourn
Elizabeth Anne Lambourn, FBA (born 6 July 1966) is a British historian and academic, specialising in medieval history, the Indian Ocean, material culture and cross-cultural studies. Since 2021, she has been Professor of Material Histories at De Montfort University; she had joined the university in 2002 as a postdoctoral research fellow.[1][2][3]
She studied art history at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an undergraduate Master of Arts (MA Hons) degree in 1988.[1][4] She later undertook a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in art and archaeology at SOAS University of London.[5] She graduated in 1999, with a doctoral thesis titled "'A collection of merits gathered from different sources': the Islamic marble carving and architecture of Cambay in Gujarat between 1200 and 1350 AD."[6]
In the Fall of 2022, Lambourn was a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.[7] In July 2023, she was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[8]
Selected works
[edit]- Lambourn, Elizabeth A. (2010). "A Self-Conscious Art? Seeing Micro-Architecture in Sultanate South Asia". Muqarnas. 27: 121–156. ISSN 0732-2992.
- Lambourn, Elizabeth (2017). Legal encounters on the medieval globe. Kalamazoo: Arc Humanities Press. ISBN 9781942401117.
- Lambourn, Elizabeth (2018). Abraham's luggage: a social life of things in the medieval Indian ocean world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316795453.
- Lambourn, Elizabeth, ed. (2021). A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age. The Cultural Histories Series. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781474299022.
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Lambourn, Prof. Elizabeth Anne (6 July 1966), Professor of Material Histories, De Montfort University, since 2021". Who's Who 2025. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2024. Archived from the original on 6 July 2025. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
- ↑ "Professor Elizabeth Lambourn". dmu.ac.uk. De Montfort University. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
- ↑ "Professor Elizabeth A. Lambourn FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
- ↑ "Elizabeth Lambourn Resume/CV". dmu.academia.edu. 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
- ↑ "Elizabeth Lambourn". ORCID. Open Researcher and Contributor ID. 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
- ↑ Lambourn, Elizabeth Anne (1999). "A collection of merits gathered from different sources" : the Islamic marble carving and architecture of Cambay in Gujarat between 1200 and 1350 AD (PhD thesis). University of London. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
- ↑ "Former Fellows SCAS".
- ↑ "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows showcasing the breadth and depth of humanities and social sciences research". The British Academy. 21 July 2023. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
| International | |
|---|---|
| Academics | |
| Other | |
 | This article about a British historian or genealogist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |
- 1966 births
- Living people
- 21st-century British historians
- British women historians
- British medievalists
- History of the Indian Ocean
- Academics of De Montfort University
- British art historians
- British women art historians
- Cross-cultural studies
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- Alumni of SOAS University of London
- Fellows of the British Academy
- British historian stubs