Anne Gerritsen

Anne Gerritsen (born 1967) is professor of history at the University of Warwick. Between 2013 and 2018 she held the Kikkoman Chair in the study of Asia-Europe Exchange, with special attention to art, material culture and human dynamics at Leiden University.

Biography Gerritsen has a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 2001. Gerritsen was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy She is a member of Academia Europaea.

Select publications Cleetus, B. and Gerritsen, A. (eds) 2023. Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000. Bloomsbury. Gerritsen, A. "Reading Late-Imperial Chinese Merchant Handbooks in Global and Micro-History", Journal of Early Modern History 27 (1-2), 132–155. Gerritsen, A. and Grasskamp, A. (eds) 2022. Transformative Jars: Asian Ceramic Vessels As Transcultural Enclosures. Gerritsen, A. 2022. "The Tiger's Teeth: Local Gazetteers as Sources for Images Related to the Performance of Ritual", Journal of the European Association of Chinese Studies 3.