Elizabeth Lambourn
Professor
Reader in South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester
Elizabeth Lambourn is a historian of South Asia and the Indian Ocean world, specializing in cultural exchanges with the Middle East before 1500. Her research interest focuses on the history of the Indian Ocean in the 600-1500, merchant material cultures, the material worlds of the Cairo Geniza “India Book,” circulation and exchange of paper and metalwork.