Elizabeth Lambourn

Elizabeth Anne Lambourn, FBA (born 6 July 1966) is a British historian and academic, specialising in medieval history, the Indian Ocean, material culture and cross-cultural studies. Since 2021, she has been Professor of Material Histories at De Montfort University; she had joined the university in 2002 as a postdoctoral research fellow.^[1][2][3]

She studied art history at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an undergraduate Master of Arts (MA Hons) degree in 1988.^[1][4] She later undertook a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in art and archaeology at SOAS University of London.^[5] She graduated in 1999, with a doctoral thesis titled "'A collection of merits gathered from different sources': the Islamic marble carving and architecture of Cambay in Gujarat between 1200 and 1350 AD."^[6]

In July 2023, she was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[7]

• Lambourn, Elizabeth A. (2010). "A Self-Conscious Art? Seeing Micro-Architecture in Sultanate South Asia". Muqarnas. 27: 121–156. ISSN 0732-2992.
• Lambourn, Elizabeth (2017). Legal encounters on the medieval globe. Kalamazoo: Arc Humanities Press. ISBN 9781942401117.
• Lambourn, Elizabeth (2018). Abraham's luggage: a social life of things in the medieval Indian ocean world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316795453.
• Lambourn, Elizabeth, ed. (2021). A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age. The Cultural Histories Series. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781474299022.