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Meet Robert

Robert Peckham, PhD, is a writer, historian and academic. Born in London, England, he has lived much of his life outside the UK in France, Greece, China, and the United States.

Until June 2021, he was Professor of History and MB Lee Endowed Professor in the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), where he was also Chair of the Department of History and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine, an interdisciplinary research hub focused on the social, cultural and historical dimensions of health and disease.

Before that, he held research fellowships at St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, and at St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford, and was a lecturer at King’s College London. He has also been a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, and in 2017-2018, he was a visiting scholar based at NYU's Remarque Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities, and Honorary Professor of History in the School of Humanities at HKU.

Robert recently launched Open Cube, with a mission to foster dialogue between the arts, sciences and technology.

He lives in New York.