Name Prasenjit Duara Role Historian | Academic advisor Philip A. Kuhn | |
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Rescuing History from the, Culture - power - and the state, Sovereignty and Authenticity, The Crisis of Global Modernity, The global and regional i Similar People Philip A Kuhn, Andrew Sartori, Joseph W Esherick, R Schoppa, Timothy Brook | ||
Prasenjit duara on the crisis of global modernity asian traditions and a sustainable future
Prasenjit Duara (অসমীয়া: প্রসেনজিৎ দুৱঁৰা (Assamese), Chinese name: Chinese: 杜赞奇; pinyin: Dù Zànqí), originally from Assam, India, an historian of China, is Professor, Department of History, Duke University, after being the Raffles Professor of Humanities at the National University of Singapore where he was also Director of Asian Research Institute and Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. Duara also taught at George Mason University and the Department of History in the University of Chicago, where he was also chairman of the department from 2004-2007.
Contents
- Prasenjit duara on the crisis of global modernity asian traditions and a sustainable future
- Prasenjit duara chinese reforms in historical and comparative perspective
- Early life and education
- Career
- Selected publications
- References
His Ph.D was obtained in 1983 from Harvard University, where he studied with Philip Kuhn. His doctoral thesis was "Power in Rural Society: North China Villages, 1900-1940."
In addition to Chinese history, he works more broadly on Asia in the twentieth century, and on historical thought and historiography. While his early work was on rural society in early 20th century China, he subsequently turned to studies of nationalism, imperialism, and origins of modern historical consciousness. His most recent work, featured in an interview with the New York Times in Oct 2016, deals with Asian religions and environmental sustainability. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/world/asia/china-religion-prasenjit-duara.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=1
Prasenjit duara chinese reforms in historical and comparative perspective
Early life and education
Duara went to the The Doon School in India and studied history at St. Stephen's College, Delhi. After obtaining BA and MA in history from St. Stephen's College, Duara received his M. Phil in Chinese Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He then completed his PhD at Harvard University in History and East Asian languages in 1983.
Career
Duara has taught at Princeton University, George Mason University and has been a Mellon Faculty Fellow at Stanford University. From 1990 until 2008, he taught at the University of Chicago where he was Chair of the China Studies Committee (1994-1996) and subsequently, Chair of the History Department (2004-2007). He was the Raffles Professor of Humanities at the [[National University of Singapore]from 2009-2015]]. In addition to that, he also served as the director of Asia Research Institute and Humanities & Social Science Research at NUS. In Jan 2016 he joined Duke University as the Oscar Tang Chair Professor of East Asian Studies.
Selected publications
New York Times discussion of book, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/world/asia/china-religion-prasenjit-duara.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=1