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Professor Jonathan Saha is a specialist in South Asian History at Durham University's Department of History, focusing on British imperialism in Myanmar (Burma). His academic journey spans the University of Leeds (Associate Professor) and University of Bristol (Lecturer) prior to Durham.
His educational background includes undergraduate studies in History and Politics at the University of Sheffield, followed by Master's and PhD degrees at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Key research areas include Animal History, Colonial Myanmar, Imperial Masculinities, and Racial Capitalism.
Saha's scholarly work reveals consistent engagement with interspecies dynamics within colonial frameworks, examining how animal histories intersect with imperial economics, legal systems, and resistance movements. His publications demonstrate methodological innovation through microhistory, biocultural analysis, and critical examinations of accumulation paradigms.
As an active editorial contributor, he serves on the History Workshop Journal collective and edits the Empire's Other Histories series for Bloomsbury. His commitment to equity is evidenced through leadership roles in the Royal Historical Society's Race, Ethnicity and Equality Working Group (2017-2022), co-chairing Durham University's BAME Network, and participation in the Social History Society BME Historians Network.
His supervision includes Hasaam Latif's research on 'The Forgotten Sailors: Lascars, Homelands and 20th Century British Empire.' Saha's current projects continue to interrogate imperial legacies through interdisciplinary lenses, particularly regarding ecological impacts and economic structures of colonial rule.
