Benjamin Zachariah is a member of the research staff at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. He completed his undergraduate degree in history, philosophy and literature at Presidency College, Calcutta, and his PhD in history from Trinity College, Cambridge. He taught for many years at Sheffield University, was Professor of History in Calcutta and Halle, and has held previous senior research fellowships at the University of Trier, the Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University, and the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, among other places. His research interests include the politics of historical knowledge, historical theory and historiography, global fascism, transnational revolutionary networks, nationalisms, and memory.