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Professor Margot Finn is a historian of modern Britain (since 1750) at University College London's Department of History. Her research focuses on colonial and imperial history, gender, material culture, and transnational encounters. She co-edited The East India Company at Home (2018) and is currently working on a monograph about imperial family formations in British India. A Fellow of the British Academy and former President of the Royal Historical Society (2016–2020), she also serves on UCL's Open Science and Scholarship Steering Committee and as a Trustee of the Migration Museum.
Her teaching includes courses on legal cultures in colonial contexts, material culture, and research methods. She supervises PhD students in colonialism, gender, and material history. Recent students include Darren Reid (Indigenous-Settler Correspondence), Antonia Dalivalle (Ethiopian Reception in Enlightenment Europe), and Joseph Molto (Military Service in Napoleonic Wars).
Professor Finn has held leadership roles at Emory University and Warwick University, including Pro-Vice Chancellor and Director of Warwick's Institute of Advanced Study. Her advocacy extends to open access scholarship and equality initiatives, including co-authoring RHS reports on race, gender, and LGBT+ inclusion in academia.
Her grants include supervision of postdoctoral projects on colonial history and co-investigatorship in an AHRC-funded study on Jeremy Bentham and Australia. Key publications span colonial material culture, gendered histories of debt, and reparative historiography.
