He was a Senior Lecturer (2007-2011) and then Reader (2011-2012) at Imperial College London and led the Animal Models Group at the Kennedy Institute from 2003-2012.
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Subsequent work on combination therapy led to clinical trials of anti-TNFα plus methotrexate, which has set the gold standard for pharmacological management of rheumatoid arthritis. He previously focused on the role of TNFα, having successfully contributed to the successful development of anti-TNFα therapy. More broadly, he has also written on Bengali musicology and religious rituals, eighteenth-century religious history, scribal and translation practices, courtesan poets, popular music in Pakistan, Bengali migrants in colonial Burma, and the history of emotions.Richard Williams and his team focus on the development of novel therapeutic strategies for chronic inflammatory diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis. In particular, the book considers the longer history of writings on music in Classical Hindi (Brajbhasha). His second book project focuses on Ragamala, the early modern practice of imagining musical sound through poetry and painting. At its centre, the book provides a study of the court-in-exile of the last Nawab of Awadh, Wajid ‘Ali Shah, and the thirty years he spent in Calcutta (1856-1887) and traces the passage of musicians and musical practices from Lucknow to colonial Bengal. The book reconstructs an interregional, multilingual conversation about the aesthetics of elite art music, and explores the movement of patrons, theorists, and musicians between Hindustan and Bengal. He is currently completing his first book, The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal, which examines how Hindustani music evolved under colonialism. His research deploys a variety of approaches to explore a broad range of sources from early modern, colonial and contemporary South Asia. His work is particularly interested in the intersection of music and literature, and how sonic practices and musical repertoires circulate in multilingual settings. Richard David Williams’ research focuses on Hindustani classical music and popular devotional music in Hinduism. His research languages are Hindi, Brajbhasha, Bengali, and Urdu. His wider work has explored musical culture in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century South Asia the history of emotions music in the theology and ritual of a Hindu sect, the Radhavallabh Sampraday and music in Pakistani media and literature. His second book project is a cultural history of Ragamala, the early-modern art of imagining musical sound through poetry and painting. In connection with this project, he has written on Bengali-language musicology, the performance repertoires of courtesans, and sound arts in Shi’ah Islam. This book examines how musical societies negotiated the changing politics of a colonial landscape. He is currently completing his first monograph, on the circulation of musicians, genres, and musicologists between upper India and Bengal between c.1750-1900. He was then awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Oxford (2015-17), where he worked on music and aesthetics in the eighteenth century within his project “Beyond the Local: Vernacular Aesthetics in Late Mughal North India”. He received his PhD from the Music Department at King’s College London, with a doctoral thesis on the impact of colonialism on Hindustani music in the nineteenth century. Having originally studied Theology and then Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Oxford, his research brings music and sound studies into conversation with the study of religion and Indian cultural history. He is particularly interested in understanding how music and sound is explored in literature, and how colonialism reoriented early modern musical ideas and practices. Richard David Williams is a cultural historian of music in South Asia. Centre for Creative Industries, Media and Screen StudiesĬentre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial StudiesĬentre for Development, Environment and PolicyĬentre for Financial and Management StudiesĬentre for Global Media and CommunicationsĬentre for International Studies and DiplomacyĬentre for Migration and Diaspora StudiesĬentre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International LawĬentre for the Study of Illicit Economies, Violence and DevelopmentĬentre for the Study of Japanese ReligionsĬentre on the Politics of Infrastructure and Energy Security
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