Dr Sara Caputo is Director of Studies in History and Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of History, and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Her work has won awards including the Royal Historical Society Whitfield Prize, the Prince Consort and Thirlwall Prize and Seeley Medal, the British Commission for Maritime History Prize, the Ideas Prize, the Sir Julian Corbett Prize in Modern Naval History, the Society for Military History Vandervort Prize, and the Scottish History Society Rosebery Prize. She has published multiple articles on maritime social and cultural history and held visiting fellowships at various institutions in Britain, Germany, and the US.
