Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, USA
Chakrabarty is a Faculty Fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, an associate faculty of the Department of English, holds a courtesy appointment in the University of Chicago Law School and a visiting professorial fellowship at the Research School of Humanities at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. He is a founding member of the editorial collective of Subaltern Studies, consulting editor of Critical Inquiry, and founding editor of Postcolonial Studies. He is a contributing editor to Public Culture, and has served on the editorial board of the American Historical Review. He was one of the founding editors (along with Sheldon Pollock from Columbia University and Sanjay Subrahmanyam from UCLA) of the series, South Asia Across the Disciplines published by a consortium of three university presses (Chicago, Columbia, and California). He also serves on the Board of Experts for the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
Chakrabarty has been named as the recipient of the 2014 Arnold Toynbee Prize for his contribution to global history (to be awarded in 2015). He was awarded the degree of DLitt (Honoris Causa) by the University of London (conferred at Goldsmiths) in 2010 and an honorary doctorate by the University of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2011. He was elected an honorary fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2006, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta (IIMC) (conferred on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Institute in 2011). In 2012, Chakrabarty was invited to be a member of the Scientific Advisory Board to the Center for Global Cooperation Research (Bonn and Essen).
Chakrabarty's most recent book, The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. He is presently working on Climate Change and its implications for the Humanities. A collection of his essays, provisionally entitled, History and the Time of the Present, is under contract with the Duke University Press.