Prof. Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Distinguished Professor and Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences, UCLA
Prof. Sanjay Subrahmanyam completed his B.A. and M.A. in Economics in the University of Delhi and earned his Ph.D. at the Delhi School of Economics. He served as Directeur d’études in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) from 1994 to 2002 and Professor of Indian History and Culture at Oxford University from 2002 to 2004, 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 of 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).