 | Arjun Appadurai |
Arjun Appadurai, the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of International Studies and director of the Initiative on Cities and Globalization, has been appointed the William Clyde DeVane Professor for a one-year term beginning July 1.
As the DeVane Professor, Appadurai will present a series of public lectures, on a topic of his choice, during the 2003-2004 academic year. The lectures will also serve as an undergraduate for-credit course.
A scholar of global violence, mega-cities and grassroots globalization, Appadurai teaches in the Departments of Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology. His research has explored such subjects as ethnic violence in the context of globalization, particularly in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India; international civil society and urban South Asia. He also conducted a comparative ethnographic project on grassroots globalization, examining in particular emergent transnational organizational forms and new practices of sovereignty.
Appadurai's books include "Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization" and "Worship and Conflict Under Colonial Rule: A South Indian Case." He edited "The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective" and co-edited "Gender, Genre and Power in South Asian Expressions." Another volume he edited, titled "Globalization," is forthcoming. He is the editor of two collections of essays that are in preparation -- "India After Empire" and "East of Anthropology" -- and is preparing a book titled "Space, Uncertainty and Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization." He is one of the founding editors of the journal Public Culture.
Born and educated in Bombay, India, Appadurai earned an intermediate arts degree from Elphinstone College before coming to the United States. He received his B.A. from Brandeis University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. In 1976, he joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was also a consulting curator for the University Museum's Asian section. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1992 and was the Samuel N. Harper Professor there. He was also the founding director of the university's Chicago Humanities Institute.
Appadurai has held visiting appointments at the University of Michigan, the University of Iowa and New York University. He has served as a consultant or adviser to a wide range of organizations, including the MacArthur and Ford foundations, UNESCO, the World Bank, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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