Biography
Dipesh Chakrabarty attended Presidency College of the University of Calcutta,where he received his undergraduate degree in physics. He also received a postgraduate diploma in management (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Later he moved on to the Australian National University in Canberra,from where he earned a PhD in history. [2]
Chakrabarty has had an extensive program of visiting lectureships:visiting fellow,Humanities Institute,Princeton,USA (2002);Hitesranjan Sanyal Visiting professor of history,Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,University of Calcutta (2003);visitor,Humanities Center,State University of New York,Stony Brook (2004);visiting fellow,Max Planck Institute for Historical Sciences,University of Göttingen,Germany (2005);Faculty,Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory,University of California,Irvine (2005);visiting research professor,University of Technology,Sydney (2005 and 2009);visitor,Center for Historical Studies,Jawaharlal Nehru University,Delhi (2005);scholar-in-residence,Pratt Institute,New York (2005);visiting professor,European Humanities University,Vilnius,Lithuania (2006);Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting professor,University of Iowa (2007);distinguished visitor,Institute of Advanced Study,University of Minnesota (2007);Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2008–09):Katz Professor in the Humanities,University of Washington,Seattle (2009);Hallsworth Visiting professor,University of Manchester,England (2009);Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen,Vienna,Austria (2010);Lansdowne Lecturer,Victoria University,Canada (2012);Nicholson Distinguished Visiting Scholar,University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign (2013). In 2014,Chakrabarty delivered the IWM Lectures in Human Sciences in Vienna;a public lecture at Cankaya Municipality (Ankara,Turkey);Principal's Distinguished Visitor,Queen's University,Canada;distinguished visitor,Humanities Institute,Stony Brook University,New York;visitor,University of Barcelona,Spain;visiting fellow,Humanities Research Centre,College of Arts &Social Sciences,Australian National University (2014); [3] GLASS scholar,Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) –Humanities University of Leiden,(2015). [4]
He also served on the Humanities jury for the Infosys Prize from 2014 to 2016. [5]
The academic Christine Fair has accused Chakrabarty of making an inappropriate sexual comment during her time as a student in 1994. [6] Fair also alleged that Chakrabarty made similar comments to others. [6] The University of Chicago released a statement in 2017 inviting students to formally report such allegations. [7] In 2021,the Graduate Employees' Organization at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign protested the university's decision to host Chakrabarty at a roundtable on criticism and interpretive theory,in response to Fair's allegations. [8] [9] Following a legal defamation suit,Fair issued a public apology for several allegations against Chakrabarty and his wife. [10]
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