Gurminder K Bhambra is Professor of Historical Sociology in the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex. She is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). She has been President of the British Sociological Association and Trustee of the Sociological Review Foundation. 

Previously, she was Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and also Guest Professor of Sociology and History at the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University, Sweden (2016-18). In March 2017, she was Visiting Professor at EHESS, Paris; for the academic year 2014-15, she was Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Princeton University and Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She has also held Visiting Positions at the Department of Sociology, University of Brasilia, Brazil and with REMESO, Linköping University, Sweden.

Her research interests are primarily in the area of global historical sociology and the political economy of colonialism. She has also been interested in the intersection of the social sciences with work in postcolonial and decolonial studies. Her current projects are on epistemological justice and reparations, varieties of empires, and the significance of colonialism to country houses. She welcomes PhD applications in her areas of research expertise.