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National Academy elect four Chicago scholars
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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences voted for their affiliations four members of the Faculty of Humanities of the University. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholars patriotic, has chosen three professors fellows in 2004. You are Dipesh Chakrabarty, Jeffrey Harvey and William Sewell. Fellows are elected for five categories: mathematics and physics, life sciences, social sciences, humanities and the arts, politics and public opinion, economics and administration. American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow conduct interdisciplinary studies in a wide range of disciplines. Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in languages and cultures of South Asia, and the college. His research focuses on modern South Asian history and historiography, postcolonial theory and their impact on the history of writing, and comparative studies of the politics of modernity. He is currently working on a book on the impact of democracy on the history of the discipline, and another on the history and literature during the colonial era Bengal. His latest book is Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (University Press). A founding member of the Subaltern Studies Journal, co-editor of the criticism of the commission of inquiry and a founder and editor of the newspaper “Post-Colonial Studies, Chakrabarty also has the editorial committee on the government for Culture and the American Historical Review. His books are Provincializing Europe: Post-Colonial and Historical Thought difference and Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal, 1890-1940. A bunch of his essays Bengali, Itihash Title: torke-bitorke (Talk about history), has been the subject of contracts issued by Ananda Publishers, Calcutta, India. After studying physics in Calcutta a grundständiges studies at the University and the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, Chakrabarty went to earn Ph.D. In the history of the Australian National University in 1984. He taught at the University of Melbourne, before the Faculty of Chicago in 1995. Jeffrey Harvey is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor and Chairman, Department of Physics. He specializes in particle physics, cosmology and string theory, the severity of his current research. Strings are hypothetical objects that help explain how the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity, electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces, fit together. Harvey has been Professor of Physics at Chicago in 1990. Previously, he was a member of the faculty at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. He is also an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is co-editor of four books: String Theory and Quantum Gravity’91, String Theory and Quantum Gravity’92, Recent Directions in Particle Theory, Superstring and black holes for the standard model, and chains, Branes and gravity . Harvey received his Bachelor of Science in mathematics and physics at the University of Minnesota, Phi Beta Kappa, with distinction and a doctorate in physics from California Institute of Technology. Max Palevsky William Sewell is a professor of political science, history and the college and director of the Center for the study of politics, culture and history. Tags: academy of arts, american academy of arts and sciences, calcutta india, class history, colonial studies, history bengal, history of writing, james bowdoin, mathematics and physics, provincializing europe, service professor, south asian history, subaltern studies, william sewell |