Dipesh Chakrabarty

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, a faculty fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, an associate of the Department of English, and by courtesy, a faculty member in the Law School. He is a founding member of the editorial collective of Subaltern Studies, consulting editor of Critical Inquiry , founding editor of Postcolonial Studies , and has served on the...See more

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, a faculty fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, an associate of the Department of English, and by courtesy, a faculty member in the Law School. He is a founding member of the editorial collective of Subaltern Studies, consulting editor of Critical Inquiry , founding editor of Postcolonial Studies , and has served on the editorial boards of the American Historical Review and Public Culture . His many books include The Crises of Civilization , The Climate of History in a Planetary Age , and Provincializing Europe . See less