| Nuala Zahedieh | |
| Birth Place: | England |
| Occupation: | University Professor |
| Nationality: | British |
Nuala Zahedieh is a British historian and university professor.
She completed her undergraduate degree, a master's degree, and a PhD in Economic History at the London School of Economics.[1]
She was a professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh from 1990 to 2021. She retired from that post in 2021.[2]
She served as Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies from 2014 to 2019 and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Global History from 2019 to 2020. She held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 1997-8 and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society.[2]
She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Fellow of Academia Europaea.[3]
Zahedieh is also on the Academic Panel of the Museum of London and is Chair of the Publications Committee of the Economic History Society.[3]
Her notable books include:[4] [5] [6]
Her book Capital and the Colonies was reviewed positively by Thomas M. Truxes due to the way it handled the historical relationship between London's economy and the Atlantic slave trade.[7]