Professor Yasmin Khan

My research centres on warfare, migration and displacement in modern South Asia and Britain’s imperial world. I am also increasingly interested in histories of migration to Britain and the making of ‘Britishness’ as a global problem in the twentieth century. My work is linked by an interest in the social history and mobilities of modern South Asians in the twentieth century.

My research has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust. In 2019-20 I held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. I studied history as an undergraduate at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, and I was also a doctoral student at St. Antony's, and held posts at the University of Edinburgh and Royal Holloway, University of London, before returning to Oxford in 2012. 

• Refugees and displacement in the British empire
• Social histories of the Second World War
• The use of alternative sources for telling South Asian histories
• British histories of race and migration
• Modern South Asia after 1947
• Narratives, story-telling and fiction in history

I have explored the connections between public history and academic research, and have worked with organisations such as the Imperial War Museum, the Memorial Gates Trust and the Historical Association to consider how the latest academic research can reach a wider audience.

I am an editor of the journals History Workshop Journal and Historical Research.