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Professor John Sabapathy

Academic position: Professor of聽History

Department: History

Email: j.sabapathy@ucl.ac.uk

UCL Website: Professor John Sabapathy

Biography:

I am a historian of knowledge, rationalities, bureaucracy, law, and accountability, specializing in the period 1100鈥�1400 CE. I work on problems of institutionalization: how humans create institutions yet then find it difficult or impossible to reform or escape what they have created. Such problems are central to any account of the Anthropocene. I am working on two related book projects.

The Cultivation of Christendom explores the problematic success of Europe鈥檚 institutionalization as Christendom during the thirteenth century within a wide ecological and inter-cultural context.

Emergency History explores how history as a discipline can orientate us inside the Anthropocene. It ranges very widely chronologically, geographically, and disciplinarily, 聽providing long-term perspectives that challenge dominant, introverted short-term perspectives. It also explores how the Anthropocene challenges the discipline of history.

Before my academic career I worked with NGOs, companies, UK government departments and European Commission DGs on sustainable development and corporate accountability for the New Economics Foundation and AccountAbility.

Research Projects

  • Emergency History: A Natural History of Humanity for the Present

  • The Cultivation of Christendom 1187鈥�1321: From the Fall of Jerusalem to the Death of Dante (forthcoming, Oxford University Press)

  • , co-edited with Antonia Fitzpatrick (Royal Historical Society/Institute of Historical Research, 2020)

  • (Oxford University Press, 2014) (Winner of the )

  • 鈥楽ome difficulties in forming persecuting societies before Lateran IV canon 8: Robert of Courson thinks about communities and inquisition鈥�, in Gert Melville and Johannes Helmrath (ed.), The Fourth Lateran Council: Institutional Reform and Spiritual Renewal (Didymos-Verlag, 2017), pp. 175-200

  • 鈥楥OVID-19 鈥� the whole story鈥�听辫辞诲肠补蝉迟 on the history of epidemics (May, 2020)

  • 鈥業nquests and accountability: on the Iraq Inquiry鈥�, History Today,听 (5th July 2016)

Teaching

  • 鈥楨mergency History: A Natural History of Humanity for the Present鈥� (HIST0399, undergraduate 2nd鈥揻inal year thematic module)

  • 鈥楥omprehending COVID-19: A pandemic in social and historical perspective鈥� (interdisciplinary collaborative final year UG module)

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