David Gange

David Gange is Senior Lecturer in modern history at the University of Birmingham. He completed his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge (2007) before undertaking an interdisciplinary Leverhulme fellowship (2007-2010), 'Abandoning the Past in an Age of Progress', at the University of Cambridge. This involved working with classicists, literary scholars and historians of science on the representations of past and future in nineteenth-century Britain. These themes relate to his broader interest in the uses of history in modern societies. His publications include Dialogues with the Dead: Egyptology in British Culture and Religion, 1822-1922 (Oxford University Press, 2013) and edited volumes on cultural history and the history of archaeology, as well as articles on epic poetry, death, heritage and preservation. He undertakes occasional media work including writing for the Times Literary Supplement and appearances for Smithsonian television and the BBC. He has won several awards for pedagogy on the theory and practice of historical studies.

Gange's report on the first phase of the Intercontinental Academia in São Paulo