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Bérénice Guyot-Réchard is a historian specializing in South Asia and international relations. She has particular expertise in the intersections of state-making, nation-building, and geopolitics, with a focus on border regions such as the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean. She authored 'Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-62' (Cambridge University Press, 2016) which won the James Fisher Prize for Nepalese Himalayan Studies in 2017. Additionally, she edited 'South Asia Unbound: New International Histories of the Subcontinent' (Leiden University Press, 2023). Guyot-Réchard joined King’s College London in early 2016 following a Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and a visiting fellowship at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. She has received multiple awards including the British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Prize (2012) and the British Academy Rising Star Award (2018). Her current research investigates the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean post-1945 and India’s historical contributions to global order from the 18th to the 21st century. She is actively involved in public debates regarding modern South Asian politics and history, contributing to various media and cultural institutions in Delhi and Brussels.
King's College London • London
Teaching and researching on South Asian history and international relations.
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