# Elizabeth Lambourn > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Elizabeth_Lambourn > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Elizabeth_Lambourn.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Lambourn > Source revision: 1350514742 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) '''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](/source/medieval_history), the [Indian Ocean](/source/Indian_Ocean), [material culture](/source/material_culture) and [cross-cultural studies](/source/cross-cultural_studies). Since 2021, she has been Professor of Material Histories at [De Montfort University](/source/De_Montfort_University); she had joined the university in 2002 as a [postdoctoral research fellow](/source/postdoctoral_research_fellow).{{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](/source/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}}{{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}}{{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}} She studied [art history](/source/art_history) at the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh), graduating with an [undergraduate Master of Arts](/source/undergraduate_Master_of_Arts) (MA Hons) degree in 1988.{{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}} She later undertook a [Doctor of Philosophy](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy) (PhD) degree in art and [archaeology](/source/archaeology) at [SOAS University of London](/source/SOAS_University_of_London).{{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}} She graduated in 1999, with a [doctoral thesis](/source/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."{{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}} In the Fall of 2022, Lambourn was a Fellow at the [Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study](/source/Swedish_Collegium_for_Advanced_Study) in [Uppsala](/source/Uppsala), [Sweden](/source/Sweden).{{Cite web |title=Former Fellows SCAS |url=https://www.swedishcollegium.se/fellows/former-fellows/all-former-fellows }} In July 2023, she was elected [Fellow of the British Academy](/source/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy) (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.{{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}} ==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}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lambourn, Elizabeth Anne}} Category:1966 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century British historians Category:British women historians Category:British medievalists Category:History of the Indian Ocean Category:Academics of De Montfort University Category:British art historians Category:British women art historians Category:Cross-cultural studies Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Category:Alumni of SOAS University of London Category:Fellows of the British Academy {{UK-historian-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Elizabeth Lambourn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Lambourn) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Lambourn?action=history)). 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