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== Biography == Dipesh Chakrabarty attended [[Presidency College, Kolkata|Presidency College]] of the [[University of Calcutta]], where he received his undergraduate degree in physics. He also received a [[post graduate diploma in management|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.<ref name="toynbee2014">[http://toynbeeprize.org/toynbee-prize/dipesh-chakrabarty-named-2014-toynbee-prize-recipient/ Dipesh Chakrabarty Named 2014 Toynbee Prize Recipient] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127201912/https://toynbeeprize.org/toynbee-prize/dipesh-chakrabarty-named-2014-toynbee-prize-recipient/ |date=27 January 2020 }}, Toynbee Prize Foundation, 9 July 2014, accessed 22 July 2015</ref> Chakrabarty has had an extensive program of visiting lectureships: visiting fellow, Humanities Institute, [[Princeton University|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, [[University of Göttingen|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|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, Toronto|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);<ref name="2014ANU">[http://hrc.anu.edu.au/HRC2014visitingfellows HRC 2014 Visiting Fellows], [[Australian National University]], accessed 24 July 2015</ref> GLASS scholar, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) – Humanities [[University of Leiden]], (2015).<ref name="2015_Leiden">[http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lias/lias-highlights/chakrabarty.html Dipesh Chakrabarty (Fall 2015)], [[University of Leiden]], accessed 24 July 2015</ref> He also served on the Humanities jury for the [[Infosys Prize]] from 2014 to 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Humanities Jury|first=Infosys Science Foundation|title=Infosys Prize – Jury 2016|url=https://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/jury/jury-2016.asp#Humanities|url-status=live|website=Infosys Science Foundation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114044655/http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com:80/prize/jury/jury-2016.asp |archive-date=14 November 2017}}</ref> The academic [[Christine Fair]] has accused Chakrabarty of making an inappropriate sexual comment during her time as a student in 1994.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/christinefair/himtoo-a-reckoning |title="#HimToo: A Reckoning", accessed 11 November 2022.|website=[[BuzzFeed]] }} Fair has subsequently withdrawn several of the claims made in this article {{Cite web|url=https://shortbustoparadise.wordpress.com/2022/09/08/retraction-statement |title="Retraction Statement" accessed 11 November 2022|date=8 September 2022 }}</ref> Fair also alleged that Chakrabarty made similar comments to others.<ref name=":0" /> The University of Chicago released a statement in 2017 inviting students to formally report such allegations.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 20, 2017 |title=UChicago and the Asymmetry of Power: Academic circles can be unwelcoming and dangerous for women. |url=https://chicagomaroon.com/25142/viewpoints/op-ed/uchicago-asymmetry-power/}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 10, 2021 |title=GEO Statement on the "Author's Roundtable with Dipesh Chakrabarty" Hosted by UIUC's Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory |url=https://www.uiucgeo.org/solidarity-statements-and-press-releases/unitforcriticism-cnj2b}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 14, 2021 |title=Graduate students express concern over University-invited professor with sexual harassment allegation |url=https://dailyillini.com/news-stories/2021/04/14/graduate-students-concerned-with-university-invited-professor-with-sexual-harassment-allegation/}}</ref> Following a legal defamation suit, Fair issued a public apology for several allegations against Chakrabarty and his wife.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-12 |title=Retraction Statement – Tenacious Hellpussy |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112104045/https://shortbustoparadise.wordpress.com/2022/09/08/retraction-statement/ |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref> ===Honours=== 2004: Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/dipesh-chakrabarty|title=Dipesh Chakrabarty {{!}} History {{!}} The University of Chicago|website=history.uchicago.edu|access-date=2019-11-15}}</ref> 2006: Honorary Fellow of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.humanities.org.au/fellows/fellows/|title=Fellows|website=Australian Academy of the Humanities|access-date=2019-11-15}}</ref> 2010: [[Doctor of Letters]] (D.Litt. ([[Honoris Causa]])), [[University of London]] (conferred at [[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths]]){{citation needed|date=March 2018}} 2011: honorary doctorate by the [[University of Antwerp]], Belgium, in 2011; Distinguished Alumnus Award, [[Indian Institute of Management]] (IIM), Calcutta (conferred on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the institute in 2011)<ref name="Heyman">[http://heymancenter.org/people/dipesh-chakrabarthy/ Dipesh Chakrabarthy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113012355/http://heymancenter.org/people/dipesh-chakrabarthy/|date=13 November 2020}}, Heyman Centre, accessed 24 July 2015</ref> 2014: [[Toynbee Prize]], named for Professor [[Arnold J. Toynbee]], that recognizes social scientists for significant academic and public contributions to humanity<ref name="toynbee2014" /> 2019: Tagore Memorial Prize (Rabindra Smriti Puraskar) awarded by the Government of West Bengal, India.
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