'''Elizabeth Anne Lambourn''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|FBA}} (born 6 July 1966) is a British historian and academic, specialising in medieval history, the Indian Ocean, material culture and cross-cultural studies. Since 2021, she has been Professor of Material Histories at De Montfort University; she had joined the university in 2002 as a postdoctoral research fellow.<ref name="WW 25">{{cite web |title=Lambourn, Prof. Elizabeth Anne (6 July 1966), Professor of Material Histories, De Montfort University, since 2021 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U298924 |website=Who's Who 2025 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=6 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250706145351/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-298924 |archive-date=6 July 2025 |date=1 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="bio dmu">{{cite web |title=Professor Elizabeth Lambourn |url=https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/art-design-humanities/elizabeth-lambourn/elizabeth-lambourn.aspx |website=dmu.ac.uk |publisher=De Montfort University |access-date=6 July 2025}}</ref><ref name="FBA">{{cite web |title=Professor Elizabeth A. Lambourn FBA |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/elizabeth-lambourn-fba/ |website=The British Academy |access-date=6 July 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
She studied art history at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an undergraduate Master of Arts (MA Hons) degree in 1988.<ref name="WW 25" /><ref name="CV">{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Lambourn Resume/CV |url=https://dmu.academia.edu/ElizabethLambourn/CurriculumVitae |website=dmu.academia.edu |access-date=6 July 2025 |date=2016}}</ref> She later undertook a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in art and archaeology at SOAS University of London.<ref name="ORCID">{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Lambourn |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7815-8081 |website=ORCID |publisher=Open Researcher and Contributor ID |access-date=6 July 2025 |date=2021}}</ref> She graduated in 1999, with a doctoral thesis titled "'A collection of merits gathered from different sources': the Islamic marble carving and architecture of Cambay in Gujarat between 1200 and 1350 AD."<ref name="thesis">{{cite thesis |last= Lambourn |first= Elizabeth Anne |date= 1999 |title= "A collection of merits gathered from different sources" : the Islamic marble carving and architecture of Cambay in Gujarat between 1200 and 1350 AD. |degree= PhD |publisher= University of London |url= http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1858215~S16 |accessdate= 6 July 2025}}</ref>
In the Fall of 2022, Lambourn was a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Former Fellows SCAS |url=https://www.swedishcollegium.se/fellows/former-fellows/all-former-fellows }}</ref> In July 2023, she was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.<ref>{{cite web |title=The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows showcasing the breadth and depth of humanities and social sciences research |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-british-academy-welcomes-86-new-fellows-showcasing-the-breadth-and-depth-of-humanities-and-social-sciences-research/ |website=The British Academy |access-date=6 July 2025 |language=en |date=21 July 2023}}</ref>
==Selected works== * {{cite journal |ref=none |last1=Lambourn |first1=Elizabeth A. |title=A Self-Conscious Art? Seeing Micro-Architecture in Sultanate South Asia |journal=Muqarnas |date=2010 |volume=27 |pages=121–156 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25769695 |issn=0732-2992}} * {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Lambourn |first1=Elizabeth |title=Legal encounters on the medieval globe |date=2017 |publisher=Arc Humanities Press |location=Kalamazoo |isbn=9781942401117}} * {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Lambourn |first1=Elizabeth |title=Abraham's luggage: a social life of things in the medieval Indian ocean world |date=2018 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9781316795453}} * {{cite book |ref=none |editor1-last=Lambourn |editor1-first=Elizabeth |title=A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age |series= The Cultural Histories Series |date=2021 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |location=London |isbn=9781474299022}}
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