Seventeen members of the faculty from a wide range of disciplines at the university faculty have obtained new appointment. Some of the appointments was November 1, 2002, while others were effective January 1st

Five members of the Faculty of Arts of the University, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Jeffrey Harvey, Thomas Holt, Peter McCullagh, Janel Mueller, and David Oxtoby, have benefited from services is distinguished professor. Twelve teachers honored recently named chairs are: Albert Alschuler, Lisa Bernstein, Mary Anne Case, Charles Cohen, Donald Lamb, John Lucy, Jean-Luc Marion, Thomas Pavel, Eric Posner, Michael Stein and Kenneth Warren.

Dipesh Chakrabarty
Dipesh Chakrabarty, a professor of languages and cultures of South Asia, and the College has the name of Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor.

Chakrabarty research interests are 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 multiculturalism and democracy, and another on literature and history. His latest book is Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies.

He is a founding member of the series Subaltern Studies, co-editor of the criticism of the Commission of Inquiry, and a founder and editor of the journal of post-colonial studies. He has also worked on the editorial board of public culture and the American Historical Review.

Other publications are Provincializing Europe: Post Colonial Thought and Historical difference and Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal, 1890-1940. He also co-edited with his colleague cosmopolitanism Sheldon Pollock, George V. Brobinskoy professor of languages and cultures of South Asia and the College, Carol Breckinridge and former Chicago professor Homi Bhabha.

A volume of his tongue Bengali Essays, Itihash Title: torke-bitorke (Talk about history), is published 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
Jeffrey Harvey, theoretical studies, the behaviour of fundamental particles of matter, it was known as Enrico Fermi, the Distinguished Service Professor. He was previously Professor Louis block in physics and the university.

Harvey specializes in string theory, particle physics and cosmology. Much of his current work focuses on string theory. Thongs are the theoretical part in the context of the statement of how the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity, electromagnetism and the nuclear material strong and weak armed 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 beneficiary of Alfred Sloan Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. He was also an elected member 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 of the theory of particle physics, the superb string of black holes and on the standard model, and chains, Branes and gravity.

Harvey received his B.Sc. In physics and mathematics from the University of Minnesota, Phi Beta Kappa, with distinction and a doctorate in physics from California Institute of Technology.

Thomas Holt
Thomas Holt, one of the greatest scholars of the nation Afro-American history, has the reputation of a Distinguished Service Professor. The distinction has been added to his songs, cases of the West Holt James Thompson, Distinguished Service Professor in the full story.

Holt is a specialist in the emancipation of American slavery, race relations and freedom of movement. He is the author of “The Problem of Race in the 21st Century, published in 2002 1832-1938 1992, and black and white: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina for Reconstruction (1977).