Dr. Sebastian R. Prange
| Training | Appointments | Publications | Contact |
Sebastian Prange is a historian studying the social and economic organization of Muslim trading communities across the Indian Ocean, with a regional focus on the Malabar Coast in southwestern India.
His current research project is described here.
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Training
2008 |
Ph.D. History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
2004 |
M.Sc. (Distinction) Global History, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London |
2003 |
B.A. (First Class) English and History, Goldsmiths College, University of London |
Appointments
2010-11 |
Research Fellow, Zentrum Moderner Orient (Center for Modern Oriental Studies), Berlin |
2009-10 |
President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of British Columbia |
2007-08 |
Isobel Thornley Research Fellow (predoctoral), Institute of Historical Research, London |
Publications
- “Measuring by the bushel’: Reweighing the Indian Ocean Pepper Trade”, Historical Research 83 (forthcoming, 2010). Awarded the Pollard Prize of the Institute of Historical Research, London.
- “Like Banners on the Sea: Muslim Trade Networks and Islamization in Malabar and maritime Southeast Asia”, in Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia, eds. M. Feener and T. Sevea (Singapore: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, 2009), pp. 25-47.
- “Scholars and the Sea: A Historiography of the Indian Ocean”, History Compass 6:5 (2008), pp. 1382-1393. Awarded the History Compass Graduate Essay Prize in World History.
- “Trust in God, but tie your camel first.’ The Economic Organization of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade between the Fourteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”, Journal of Global History 1:2 (2006), pp. 219-239.
Contact
Zentrum Moderner Orient
Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin, Germany
Phone +49 (0)30 80307 105
Fax +49 (0)30 80307 210
Email prange@rz.hu-berlin.de
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