Sadiah Qureshi
Professor Sadiah Qureshi is a historian of science, race and empire, currently holding a Chair in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Linnean Society, and Royal Anthropological Society. She has a Masters and Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine from the University of Cambridge.
In 2013, her first book, Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011) was joint winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Award for best first book published in Victorian Studies. In 2012, she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Medieval, Early Modern and Modern History from the Leverhulme Trust in recognition of her outstanding research.
Sadiah’s first book for a trade audience, Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction will be published in June 2025 by Allen Lane / Penguin. The Financial Times selected Vanished as one of its books to read in 2025.
