British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh
Lecturer in Politics, University of Oxford

Year elected: 2006

He is among the world’s leading scholarly authorities on French politics, public administration and history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His scholarship is characterized by extensive archival research meticulously to establish an understanding of how French political culture and politics up to the present day have been formed by definitions of state-ness, conceptions of rights and citizenship and shifting central-local relations.