Susan Bayly[1] is Professor Emerita of Historical Anthropology[2] in the Cambridge University Department of Social Anthropology[3] and a Life Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.[4] She is a former editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.[4]
Her research interests include the South Asian caste system.[3][5] She was married to fellow Cambridge historian, Christopher Bayly, until his death in 2015.[1]
To mark her retirement, and her scholarly works, former students and colleagues published a collected volume of essays in her honour 2023.[6][7]