Sanjay Seth is a historian, Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London. After completing his education in Sydney and Canberra, he held positions at Sydney University and La Trobe University (Melbourne), as well as a Fellowship at Tokyo University. He moved to Goldsmiths in 2007, to take up the Chair in Politics. At Goldsmiths, he is also the Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies. He has published in the fields of modern Indian history, political and social theory, postcolonial theory and international relations; he has also published in the fields of historiography, theory of history and memory. He is particularly interested in how modern European ideologies, and modern Western knowledge more generally, "travelled" to the non-Western world- and what effects this had both on the non-Western world, and on modern, Western knowledge. He is the author of "Marxist Theory and Nationalist Politics: The Case of Colonial India" (Sage 1995), "Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India" (Duke UP 2007 and Oxford University Press India 2008) and "Beyond Reason: Postcolonial Theory and the Social Sciences" (Oxford University Press 2021, Indian edition with OUP also in 2021). He is the editor of "Postcolonial Theory and International Relations: A Critical Introduction" (Routledge 2013) and co-editor of "Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South: Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Perspectives, and the Anthropocene" (Routledge 2019) "and "Postcolonial Politics" (Routledge 2022). His articles have appeared in a diverse range of journals, including History and Theory, Comparative Studies in Society and History, American Historical Review, Storia della Storiografia, Social Text, História da Historiografia, Third World Quarterly, Journal of Asian Studies, Positions, History of Political Thought, Ethics and International Affairs, International Political Sociology, The Sociological Review, and Práticas da História. He was founding co-editor of the international journal Postcolonial Studies from 1998-2020. He is member of the scientific committee of journals such as História da Historiografia, Southern Journal for Contemporary History, and Historien. He is an elected member of the administrative committee of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography, which is affiliated to the Comité International des Sciences Historiques (CISH). In recent years he has held visiting positions in Australia and Japan, and he has regularly cooperated with the Portuguese academia. In Portugal, a one-day workshop was dedicated to his work (Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon University) and he has been consultant of the FCT research project "Amílcar Cabral, from Political History to Politics of Memory" at the Institute of Contemporary History (New University of Lisbon). In 2020 the New University of Lisbon awarded him the recognition of his PhD degree in the field of History. Also in recent years, both at Goldsmiths College and Birkbeck College, he has been engaged in academic events on the study of the history and memory of Portuguese Empire. Two collections of his essays were recently published by Portuguese language publishers : "História e Pós-colonialismo" (Imprensa de História Contemporânea, Portugal) and "A História entre Universalismo e Diferença" (Editora Milfontes, Brazil). He currently (February-August 2023) holds a Leverhulme International Fellowship, funding a 6 month period in Lisbon, attached to the IHC at NOVA, to research his project on "The Public and Political Life of History in Colonised and Coloniser Countries."