Elizabeth Lambourn is a professor of material histories at De Montfort University. She is a historian of the Indian Ocean world, committed to the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study of medieval history. She has held fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. She is the author of the research monograph Abraham’s Luggage. A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (2018) and editor of the volumes Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe (2017) and A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age (2021).
Lambourn will be a Stewart Long-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of History in Fall 2025. She will co-teach a graduate seminar with Marina Rustow (Near Eastern Studies) on trade and the circulation of objects in the ancient and medieval Indian Ocean world.
