Gordon Johnson (historian)
Gordon Johnson | |
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| Born | 13 September 1943 |
| Nationality | British |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| School or tradition | Cambridge School of historiography |
| Institutions | Wolfson College, Cambridge |
| Main interests | Colonial India University of Cambridge |
Gordon Johnson, FRAS (born 1943) is a British historian of colonial India.
Biography
[edit]Born on 13 September 1943, Johnson was educated at Richmond School in North Yorkshire and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a fellow at Trinity from 1966 to 1974, and at Selwyn College from 1974 to 1993. He was appointed as a lecturer in Oriental studies at the University of Cambridge in 1974, remaining in that position until 2005.[1]
He was the President of Wolfson College, Cambridge, from 1993 to 2010, and is now an honorary fellow of the college.[2] He was the Director of the Cambridge University Centre of South Asian Studies from 1983 to 2001, and had been a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the university from 2002 to 2010.[1]
Gordon served as the first Provost of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship Trust from 2000 to 2010.
He was chair of the Syndicate governing Cambridge University Press from 1981 to 2010.[1] In 2009-2010 he was the Sandars Reader in Bibliography and lectured on "From printer to publisher: Cambridge University Press transformed, 1950 to 2010."[3]
He was the President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2015 to 2018 and is currently serving as the Vice President.[4]
He is the general editor of The New Cambridge History of India, published in 1979.[1] This is a series of self-contained volumes covering various aspects and themes of India's past.
Select publications
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Dr. Johnson was an editor for the journal Modern Asian Studies from 1978 to 2008.
His publications include Provincial Politics and Indian Nationalism, A Cultural Atlas of India, and University Politics: F M Cornford’s Cambridge and his advice to the young academic politician.[5]
- Johnson, Gordon (21 February 2008). University Politics: F. M. Cornford's Cambridge and His Advice to the Young Academic Politician. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521723732. A commentary on Cornford's 1908 book Microcosmographia Academica.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "JOHNSON, Dr Gordon". Who's Who. Vol. 2020 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Wolfson College Cambridge: Honorary Fellows". www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ Johnson, Gordon. 1999. Printing and Publishing for the University: Three Hundred Years of the Press Syndicate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ "Governance". Royal Asiatic Society. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ "President and College Officers". Wolfson College. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010.
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