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Professor Alan Strathern specializes in Global History, focusing on religious change and its relationship with politics, particularly during the early modern period. His recent monograph, 'Converting Rulers: Global Patterns 1450-1850' (Cambridge, 2024), offers insights into how different rulers and regions converted to Christianity, with case studies centered on Kongo, Japan, Thailand, and Hawaii. Additionally, his earlier book 'Unearthly Powers: Religious Political Change in World History' (2019) received the World History Association Bentley Book Prize in 2020, where he proposes new theoretical frameworks for understanding the intersections of religion and political authority. Strathern’s research interests extend to Sri Lankan history, where he has explored themes of kingship and conversion in his 2007 work, 'Kingship Conversion in Sixteenth Century Sri Lanka.' As a lecturer at Brasenose College and St John's College, he supervises a diverse range of doctoral projects in the early modern world and engages in interdisciplinary research, highlighting global perspectives in history.
Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.