Maya Jasanoff

Maya R. Jasanoff is an American academic. She serves as a professor of history at Harvard University, where she focuses on the history of Britain and the British Empire.[1]

Jasanoff grew up in Ithaca, New York and comes from a family of academics. Her parents, Sheila and Jay Jasanoff, are both Harvard professors, and her brother Alan is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] She was educated at Harvard College before studying for a master's degree at Cambridge, where she worked with Christopher Bayly. She earned her Ph.D. at Yale with Linda Colley, completing the thesis “French and British imperial collecting in Egypt and India, 1780-1820” (Yale, 2002).[3] Prior to arriving at Harvard, she taught at the University of Virginia.[1]

Jasanoff won both the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction[4] and 2012 George Washington Book Prize[5] for her most recent monograph, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. Her first book, Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850, won the Duff Cooper Prize in 2009.[6] She is currently working on a research project centering on the life and times of novelist Joseph Conrad.[7] As part of her research, she has blogged a journey on a cargo ship sailing from China to Europe.[8]

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  1. 1 2 Pezza, Elizabeth C. (April 28, 2009). "15 Faculty Hot Shots: Maya Jasanoff". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "Maya Jasanoff Professor of History". History Department. Harvard University.
  3. ↑ Colley, Linda. "Teaching". Linda Colley, Historian and Author. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  4. ↑ Hoffert, Barbara (March 8, 2012). "National Book Critics Circle: For Immediate Release: NBCC Award Winners for Publishing Year 2011". Critical Mass. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "George Washington Book Prize of $50,000 goes to Maya Jasanoff for Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World". Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. June 4, 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  6. ↑ Brickhouse, Robert (March 3, 2006). "'Edge of Empire' wins Duff Cooper Prize". Inside UVA Online. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  7. ↑ Lambert, Craig (2014). "Prescient fiction Joseph Conrad's Crystal Ball". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  8. ↑ Jasanoff, Maya (December 22, 2013). "Sailing the seas of global trade: From China to Europe on a cargo ship". Al Jazeera America. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
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