Pre-Modern East and West

• Yener Bayar
• Xiwen Yang

28 October 2021: Professor Marc David Baer (LSE International History) and Dr Dina Gusejnova (LSE International History) - Book Launch: The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs

21 November 2019: Dr Paul Stock - Book Launch: Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830

21 March 2019, Professor Jeffrey Auerbach (California State University, Northridge), Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire

22 November 2018: Dr Ronald C. Po's book launch: The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire

22 November 2018, Gagan D. S. Sood, "Knowledge in the Art of Governance: The Mughal and Ottoman Empires in the Early Seventeenth Century”

18 January 2018, Jeppe Mulich: "In a Sea of Empires: Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean".

8 March 2018, Ronald C. Po:  "The Nineteenth Century Camphor War".

• Marc David Baer (2021) The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs. Basic Books, New York, New York, USA.
• Marc David Baer (2010) The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks. Stanford University Press, Redwood City, CA, USA.
• Ronald C. Po (2018) The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire. Cambridge University Press, UK.
• Gagan D. S. Sood (2021) ‘A Political Sociology of Empire: Mughal historians on the Making of Mughal Paramountcy’, Modern Asian Studies (published online).
• Gagan D. S. Sood (2016) India and the Islamic Heartlands: An Eighteenth-Century World of Circulation and Exchange. Cambridge Universy Press, Cambridge, UK.
• Paul Stock (ed., 2015) The Uses of Space in Early Modern History, ed., Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, USA.
• Paul Stock (2019) Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
• Paul Stock (2022) How Should Historians Talk About Spatial Agency? Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, 48:1, 1-22.

Dr Ronald C. Po, 2020: STICERD Grant

A STICERD grant was awarded for Dr Po's book project entitled “The North China Sea: A History”. The project will be the first comprehensive study to weave together the long-forgotten North China Sea into a more productive and enduring dialogue with Chinese, Asian, and global history. Dr Po aims to reconnect this sea space to the broader historical spectrum, and to bring it out of almost a century of solitude.
Read more about STICERD Research grants for LSE Staff.

Professor Marc David Baer, 2018-19: Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship Award

This award will allow Professor Baer, a scholar of the connected histories of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Europe and Middle East, from the early modern era to the modern, to complete his work on the project “Guided by Goethe: German-Jewish Gay Muslim Writer Hugo Marcus, 1880-1966”. German Jew Hugo Marcus (1880-1966) is the only man to have played an important role in the world’s first gay rights movement and in establishing Islam in Europe. His life and work shed new light on the history of Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the gay rights struggle. Despite his significance, Marcus is relatively unknown. What is published about him does not incorporate his being German, Jewish, Muslim, and gay. Professor Baer plans to utilise his twelve-month Leverhulme Research Fellowship to write the first biography of Marcus, based on his German-language publications, speeches, private correspondence, and personal documents.

Dr Ronald C. Po, 2017: LSE Santander Travel Research Fund

Dr Po was awarded a LSE Santander Travel Research Fund in December 2016 to visit universities in Hong Kong and South Korea, from late June to July 2017, where he gave talks and seminars. He also conducted archival research to develop his new project, entitled “A Global History of Camphor: From an Oleoresin to a Commodity", and attend two international conferences, namely the AAS-in-Asia Conference (in Seoul) and the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) in Chingmai. Both highly regarded in the field of Asian studies.