Dipesh Chakrabarty

Dipesh Chakrabarty is completing a book manuscript on how climate change affects narratives of human history. One of his most recent publications is The Crises of Civilization: Exploring Global and Planetary Histories (Oxford University Press, 2018), which received the 2019 Tagore Memorial Prize from the Government of West Bengal. Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College at the University of Chicago.