Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty FBA
Modern South Asian culture and history; Postcolonial theory; the problem of Eurocentrism in historical thought; histories of history; climate change and the humanities; planetary histories
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Modern History from 1850
Current post
University of Chicago Lawrence A Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed FBA
The history of the American Revolution and the Early American Republic, 18th and 19th centuries; slavery In North America, 17th-19th centuries; Thomas Jefferson and the Age of Jefferson
Professor Claire Louise Langhamer FBA
The social and cultural history of modern Britain; the history of feeling and everyday experience; life histories, life writing and Mass-Observation.
