Sadiah Qureshi,

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, is

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at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

. She is an expert on race, science and empire in the modern world.

Education

Qureshi was awarded all of her degrees from the

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. Her

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(2005) thesis was entitled ''Living Curiosities: Human Ethnological Exhibitions in London, 1800-1855''. She received her

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in 2001, and began her academic career with

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in the

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Career

Following her DPhil, Qureshi held a postdoctoral

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ship with the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group on a five-year

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funded project entitled ‘Past versus Present: Abandoning the Past in an Age of Progress’, which explored Victorian notions of the past. Qureshi joined the

in September 2011. In 2013, her book, ''Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain'' (2011) was joint winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Award for best first book published in Victorian Studies. In 2012, she was awarded a

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for Medieval, Early Modern and Modern History from the Leverhulme Trust in recognition of her outstanding research. Qureshi is working on the history of extinction for her second book, ''Vanished: Episodes in the History of Extinction''. She received a mid-career fellowship from the

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for this project. Qureshi is a Fellow of the

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. She contributed to the RHS's Race, Ethnicity & Equality Working Group to examine the challenges facing black and minority ethnic historians in UK higher education''.'' Qureshi has contributed to media outlets such as the ''

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'', ''

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'' and the ''

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''.

Bibliography

* ''Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain''. 2011, University of Chicago Press. * ''Star-Spangled Racism'' ''New Statesman'', 2017, pp. 44–45. * ''We Prefer their Company'' ''London Review of Books'', 2017, pp. 39–40. * 'Peopling the landscape: Showmen, displayed peoples and travel illustration in nineteenth-century Britain', ''Early Popular Visual Culture'', 2012, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 23–36. * '

Robert Gordon Latham Robert Gordon Latham FRS (24 March 1812 – 9 March 1888) was an English ethnologist and philologist. Early life The eldest son of Thomas Latham, vicar of Billingborough, Lincolnshire, he was born there on 24 March 1812. He entered Eton College ...

, Displayed Peoples and the Natural History of Race, 1854-1866', ''The Historical Journal'', vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 143–166. * 'Displaying Sara Baartman, the ‘Hottentot Venus’', ''History of Science'', vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 233–257

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