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Dipesh Chakrabarty

Distinguished Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty

  • Post Nominals: FAHA, FBA
  • Fellow Type: Honorary Fellow
  • Elected to the Academy: 2006

Biography

Dipesh Chakrabarty is currently the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College at the University of Chicago where he is also a Faculty Fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, and by courtesy a Faculty member of the School of Law.

He was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2023, 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 (IIM), Calcutta (conferred on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Institute in 2011). Chakrabarty has been awarded the Toynbee Memorial Prize, and the Tagore Memorial Prize in the past, and is the 46th recipient of the European Essay Prize for 2024.

Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.