Stefan Amirell

Stefan Eklöf Amirell (PhD, Lund University 2002) is a professor of global history at Linnaeus University and the director of the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. He is also the PI for the research environment Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia (www.sea-treaties.org), which gathers seven researchers from Europe and Southeast Asia. His research interests include treaty-making in imperial contexts, piracy and comparative colonial history during the long nineteenth century. He is the author of Pirates of Empire: Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia (Cambridge UP 2019).