Kim Ati Wagner is a Danish-British historian of colonial India and the British Empire at Queen Mary University of London.
[1] In 2003, under the supervision of Christopher Bayly, he gained a PhD in South Asian history from the University of Cambridge.
Wagner then became a lecturer in imperial and World history at the University of Birmingham, before being employed at Queen Mary's in 2012.
In 2015 he was granted a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship working with historian Dane Kennedy at George Washington University in the United States, which he finished in 2018.
An accompanying note revealed the skull to be that of sepoy Alum Bheg of the Bengal Regiment, who, following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, was executed in 1858 by being blown from a cannon in Sialkot.