Prof. Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Distinguished Professor and Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences, UCLA
Prof. Subrahmanyam completed his BA and MA in Economics in the University of Delhi and earned his PhD at the Delhi School of Economics.He has served as the Directeur d’études in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), 2002, and Founding Director of UCLA's Center for India and South Asia, 2011, among his other appointments.
Prof. Subrahmanyam was Joint Managing Editor of the Indian Economic and Social History Review for over a decade, besides serving on the boards several other journals in the US, UK, France and Portugal. He was also one of the founding editors of the "South Asia Across the Disciplines (SAAD)" monograph series. In 2013, Sanjay Subrahmanyam was elected to a Chair in Early Modern Global History at the Collège de France in Paris.
He has authored Europe's India: Words, People, Empires, 1500-1800, and Empires Between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800.
In February 2019, he was awarded the Dan David Prize for History (jointly with Kenneth Pomeranz, Chicago).