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Fellow during the summer term 2024
Elisabeth Leake is the Lee E. Dirks Chair in Diplomatic History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. She works on decolonization, the global Cold War, and histories of South Asia. Her books include Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan (OUP, 2022) and The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936-65 (CUP, 2017). She is also Chief Editor of the Journal of Global History.
Elisabeth is currently undertaking two interconnected research projects. The first, 'Decolonization's Discontents', explores the development of different modes of opposition in the aftermath of political independence. The second is a global history of decolonization, beginning in the late eighteenth century and ending with the close of the twentieth. It interrogates how our understanding of 'decolonization', as both idea and practice, shifts by taking a longer, broader historical perspective.