Dipesh Chakrabarty
Dipesh Chakrabarty Office: Foster Hall, room 208 Phone: (773) 702-8642 Email Interests:

Modern South Asian History, Subaltern, Indigenous, and Minority Histories, Decolonization, Environmental History and Climate Change
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College

Australian National University, PhD ' 84

Dipesh Chakrabarty holds a BSc (physics honors) degree from Presidency College, University of Calcutta, a postgraduate Diploma in management (considered equivalent to MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a PhD (history) from the Australian National University.  He is currently the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College. He is a faculty fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory and, by courtesy, a faculty member in the Law School.

He is a founding member of the editorial collective of Subaltern Studies, a consulting editor of Critical Inquiry, and a founding editor of Postcolonial Studies. He has also served on the editorial boards of the American Historical Review and Public Culture.

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