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Gurminder K Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the Department of International Relations in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex.

Professor Bhambra was previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and also Guest Professor of Sociology and History at the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University, Sweden (2016-18). In 2017, she was Visiting Professor at EHESS, Paris; in 2014-15, she was Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Princeton University and Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She has also held a Visiting Position at the University of Brasilia and is affiliated with REMESO, Linköping University, Sweden.

Her research interests are primarily in the area of postcolonial and global historical sociology, but she is also interested in the intersection of the social sciences more generally with recent work in . Her current project is on epistemological justice and reparations.

Her first monograph,  (Palgrave, 2007), won the 2008 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for best first book in sociology. In challenging the dominant, Eurocentred accounts of the emergence and development of modernity, she put forward an argument for the recognition of ‘connected histories’ in the reconstruction of historical sociology at a global level. This argument for a global historical sociology can be found in her second book,  (Bloomsbury, 2014).

She has co-edited five collections,  (with Robbie Shilliam, Palgrave, 2009);  (with Ipek Demir, Palgrave, 2009);  (with Daniel Orrells and Tessa Roynon, OUP, 2011),  (with John Narayan, Routledge, 2017), and  (with Dalia Gebrial and Kerem Nisancioglu, Pluto Press, 2018). 

She is Series Editor of the . In 2015, she set up the  website to support students and academics interested in social theory in global perspective. She is also co-editor of the online magazine,  and Trustee at the . 

Further information about Gurminder and her research can be found .