Rohan Deb Roy
@rohandroy.bsky.social
Historian: South Asia, colonialism, science, insects. Associate Professor: University of Reading. Author: 'Malarial Subjects' (Cambridge,2017);Editor: Locating the Medical (Oxford, 2018). Words: ConversationUK; The Independent
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I knew I disliked Hegel …
1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.
Thread below ⬇️
Thread below ⬇️
Hegel and Colonialism
Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism
www.cambridge.org
October 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I knew I disliked Hegel …
South Asia at Reading this semester
Apurbaa Chatterjee (Kingston), Book launch: Visual Culture and the British in India
Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford): Statue Stories: Robert Clive as an imperial icon
Stenton Talk Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge): The Indian Ocean and Our Environmental Past and Present
Apurbaa Chatterjee (Kingston), Book launch: Visual Culture and the British in India
Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford): Statue Stories: Robert Clive as an imperial icon
Stenton Talk Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge): The Indian Ocean and Our Environmental Past and Present
September 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
South Asia at Reading this semester
Apurbaa Chatterjee (Kingston), Book launch: Visual Culture and the British in India
Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford): Statue Stories: Robert Clive as an imperial icon
Stenton Talk Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge): The Indian Ocean and Our Environmental Past and Present
Apurbaa Chatterjee (Kingston), Book launch: Visual Culture and the British in India
Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford): Statue Stories: Robert Clive as an imperial icon
Stenton Talk Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge): The Indian Ocean and Our Environmental Past and Present
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Aerial archaeology began not in neutral curiosity but in the violence of colonial Syria.
Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) traces its entanglement with empire.
Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) traces its entanglement with empire.
The Bomber's View of the Past
Discover the influence of Antoine Poidebard on aerial archaeology and his complex role in French colonial history.
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September 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Aerial archaeology began not in neutral curiosity but in the violence of colonial Syria.
Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) traces its entanglement with empire.
Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) traces its entanglement with empire.
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The Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture 2025 goes to Professor Sadiah Qureshi for the distinguished and internationally-recognised specialism in subjects related to science, race and empire. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/wilkins-bernal-medawar/
August 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture 2025 goes to Professor Sadiah Qureshi for the distinguished and internationally-recognised specialism in subjects related to science, race and empire. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/wilkins-bernal-medawar/
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At the David Attenborough Studio (Natural History Museum, London) for a 'Climate action night' rountable on 'Insects, collections, colonialism'
July 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
At the David Attenborough Studio (Natural History Museum, London) for a 'Climate action night' rountable on 'Insects, collections, colonialism'
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New article in Osiris, entitled 'Flying Rhinos', in which I follow two northern white rhinoceroses to discuss the entanglement of mid-twentieth century zoo conservation, colonialism and celebrity culture: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
June 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
New article in Osiris, entitled 'Flying Rhinos', in which I follow two northern white rhinoceroses to discuss the entanglement of mid-twentieth century zoo conservation, colonialism and celebrity culture: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Honoured and delighted to hear that my book has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society First Book Prize. The two winners will be announced in July: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/05/28/r...
Royal Historical Society First Book Prize, 2025 – Shortlisted Titles | Historical Transactions
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May 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Honoured and delighted to hear that my book has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society First Book Prize. The two winners will be announced in July: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/05/28/r...
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Love’s Labour Launches with a roar! Thanks to many roarsome people I’ve gone from peasant to PhD, to Professor, and Penguin author with Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction out today. 🐅
Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world.
#WorldEnvironmentDay
#BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️
Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world.
#WorldEnvironmentDay
#BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️
June 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Love’s Labour Launches with a roar! Thanks to many roarsome people I’ve gone from peasant to PhD, to Professor, and Penguin author with Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction out today. 🐅
Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world.
#WorldEnvironmentDay
#BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️
Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world.
#WorldEnvironmentDay
#BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️
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📣 Call for participants 📣
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
May 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
📣 Call for participants 📣
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
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"This is an essential text for scholars working on environmental, animal, scientific, and segregation histories in South Africa and beyond". The first review of my book is out on Animal History. A big thank you to Mia Uys for this generous review.
online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...
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Review: Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948, by Jules Skotnes-Brown
Segregated Species examines the role of pests in early 20th-century South Africa, and traces how conceptions of pestilence changed over time. In this engaging work, Skotnes-Brown links the South Afric...
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May 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"This is an essential text for scholars working on environmental, animal, scientific, and segregation histories in South Africa and beyond". The first review of my book is out on Animal History. A big thank you to Mia Uys for this generous review.
online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...
online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...
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Alan Corbin, Fragility: A History of Plaster, trans. Helen Morrison - @politybooks.bsky.social, June 2025
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Fragility: A History of Plaster
Fragility: A History of Plaster, This new book takes a fresh look at the role of materials in shaping history. Corbin focuses on the neglected role that plaster played in the first half of the 19th c...
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May 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Alan Corbin, Fragility: A History of Plaster, trans. Helen Morrison - @politybooks.bsky.social, June 2025
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
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May 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
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Book review of Kathryn Renton's Feral Empire: Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World, and its examination of "Spain’s imperial expansion through the unique lens of horse and human relations" muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/articl...
April 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Book review of Kathryn Renton's Feral Empire: Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World, and its examination of "Spain’s imperial expansion through the unique lens of horse and human relations" muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/articl...
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I now have a contract for my forthcoming book!!! Title, for now, ‘Mortality and Measurement: Race, Statistics, and Nineteenth-Century Empire’ (Cambridge, 2026).
April 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I now have a contract for my forthcoming book!!! Title, for now, ‘Mortality and Measurement: Race, Statistics, and Nineteenth-Century Empire’ (Cambridge, 2026).
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In this #OpenAccess article, Indrani Chatterjee traces the career of women slaves in the nineteenth century household-state of Awadh, before considering how British official necropolitics has shaped the historiography of slavery until the present.
Read it here 👇
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
Read it here 👇
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Using both English and Urdu-language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro-Asian women slaves in the household-state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth centu...
doi.org
April 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
In this #OpenAccess article, Indrani Chatterjee traces the career of women slaves in the nineteenth century household-state of Awadh, before considering how British official necropolitics has shaped the historiography of slavery until the present.
Read it here 👇
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
Read it here 👇
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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I went to talk to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour yesterday morning to talk about my @mitpress.bsky.social book 'Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present'. Catch it on iPlayer.
#nonfictionreads
#nonfictionreads
April 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I went to talk to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour yesterday morning to talk about my @mitpress.bsky.social book 'Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present'. Catch it on iPlayer.
#nonfictionreads
#nonfictionreads
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@nhm-london.bsky.socialtoday at @nhm-london.bsky.social we have the Colonies, Hives & Queens- Insects and Colonialism
We start it with @beetlequeen.bsky.social talking beetles in Guatemala. Collecting then & accessing now; there are issues with both but things, thankfully have changed
We start it with @beetlequeen.bsky.social talking beetles in Guatemala. Collecting then & accessing now; there are issues with both but things, thankfully have changed
April 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
@nhm-london.bsky.socialtoday at @nhm-london.bsky.social we have the Colonies, Hives & Queens- Insects and Colonialism
We start it with @beetlequeen.bsky.social talking beetles in Guatemala. Collecting then & accessing now; there are issues with both but things, thankfully have changed
We start it with @beetlequeen.bsky.social talking beetles in Guatemala. Collecting then & accessing now; there are issues with both but things, thankfully have changed
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I am co-organising a workshop (with Dr Isabel Davis) on 'Colonies, hives and queens: Insects and Imperialism' at the Natural History Musuem in London on Thursday the 3rd of April. There will be a set of flash talks on the theme in the morning. Teams link:
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March 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I am co-organising a workshop (with Dr Isabel Davis) on 'Colonies, hives and queens: Insects and Imperialism' at the Natural History Musuem in London on Thursday the 3rd of April. There will be a set of flash talks on the theme in the morning. Teams link:
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
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These figures are utterly grotesque. Under a Labour government too.
(I’m not saying this for sympathy, but I grew up in poverty. Aside from the immediate dreadfulness of it, the long-term psychological consequences are very real).
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
(I’m not saying this for sympathy, but I grew up in poverty. Aside from the immediate dreadfulness of it, the long-term psychological consequences are very real).
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’
Data published on day after Labour announces cuts that analysts say will hit children and disabled people hardest
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
These figures are utterly grotesque. Under a Labour government too.
(I’m not saying this for sympathy, but I grew up in poverty. Aside from the immediate dreadfulness of it, the long-term psychological consequences are very real).
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
(I’m not saying this for sympathy, but I grew up in poverty. Aside from the immediate dreadfulness of it, the long-term psychological consequences are very real).
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Higher ed institutions are “…natural antidotes against the consolidation of what the founding fathers referred to as “artificial aristocracies founded on wealth and birth.” Yes! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There’s nothing elitist about college or university. We should reject that idea | Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti
Higher education institutions continue to function as powerful engines of social mobility. They need more, not less, support
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March 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Higher ed institutions are “…natural antidotes against the consolidation of what the founding fathers referred to as “artificial aristocracies founded on wealth and birth.” Yes! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We need two people to step up into this editorial role. It has been incredibly fulfilling for me to have been co-editor for 5+ years, but now it’s time for us to let another team shape the field.
Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field?
Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities!
We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here:
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Contact us if you have any questions.
Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities!
We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here:
environmentalhumanities.org
Contact us if you have any questions.
Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press
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March 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We need two people to step up into this editorial role. It has been incredibly fulfilling for me to have been co-editor for 5+ years, but now it’s time for us to let another team shape the field.
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The Holberg Prize committee making a statement - a good choice too. Especially in relation to what's happening in the US and at Columbia...
#STS #histstm #postcol
#STS #histstm #postcol
Literary Theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Named 2025 Holberg Prize Laureate
It was announced today that the 2025 Holberg Prize is awarded to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Daniela Alaattinoğlu will receive the Nils Klim Prize. Today, the Holberg Prize—one of the largest…
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March 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Thanks Hurst for all your work with me!
Happy publication day @maryfissell.bsky.social! 🥳⭐
Abortion: A History is out today! 🌱
‘Fascinating...Fissell specialises in digging out individual stories from behind the headlines and the grandstanding.’ — @telegraphnews.bsky.social, 5⭐ review
25% off with code FISSELL25 ➡️ tinyurl.com/yybsa2wp
Abortion: A History is out today! 🌱
‘Fascinating...Fissell specialises in digging out individual stories from behind the headlines and the grandstanding.’ — @telegraphnews.bsky.social, 5⭐ review
25% off with code FISSELL25 ➡️ tinyurl.com/yybsa2wp
March 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Thanks Hurst for all your work with me!