Notes on Contributors

Prathama Banerjee is a historian and a fellow at the Centre for Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. She currently works on histories of the political in modern and contemporary India. She is interested in intellectual and conceptual histories as well as in political theory and literature. She is the author of The Politics of Time: ‘Primitives’ and History-Writing in Colonial Bengal (2002). Two of her recent essays are “Thinking equality: Debates in Bengal, 1870–1940,” in Gyan Pandey, ed., Subalternity and Difference (2011), and “Chanaky/Kautilya: History, theatre, politics in 20th century Bengal,” Journal of the History of the Present, 2 (1) (2012).

Prasenjit Duara is the Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director, Asia Research Institute as well as Director of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences at National University of Singapore. He was previously Professor and Chair of the Dept of History and of the Committee on Chinese Studies at the University of Chicago. In 1988, he published Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900–1942, which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS, USA.

Andreas Eckert is Professor of African history at Humboldt University. Since October 2009, he also directs the International Research Institute on “Work and Human Life Course in Global History,” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Science and Research. He has been visiting professor at Indiana University (Bloomington), Harvard University, the University of Michigan, the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris) and Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Study (FRIAS). He has published widely on the history of Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, on the history of colonialism, and on the history of global labor.

Curtis Anderson Gayle is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Sciences at Japan Women’s University, Tokyo. He has published Marxist History and Postwar Japanese Nationalism (2002) and Women’s History and Local Community in Postwar Japan (2011). He is currently working on a manuscript entitled “Re-imagining Globalization: Alternative Japanese views of the World from 1945 to Today.”

Gottfried Hagen took his doctorate from Freie Universität Berlin, and has been teaching Turkish Studies at the University of Michigan since 2000. He has published widely on Ottoman intellectual history, asking how Ottomans perceived and interpreted the world, and their place in it in time and space.

Ian Harris is Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, King’s College London and President of the UK Association of Buddhist Studies. He has also held positions at the Universities of Oxford, Toronto, and British Columbia, the National University of Singapore, and Dongguk University, Seoul. His most recent books are Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice (2005), Buddhism in a Dark Age: Cambodian Monks under the Khmer Rouge (2012), and an edited volume entitled Buddhism, Power and Politics in Southeast Asia (2007).

Freyja Cox Jensen currently holds the position of Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of Exeter, and was previously a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford. She specializes in the reception of the classics in early modern Britain and Europe; her first monograph, Reading the Roman Republic in Early Modern England, was published in 2012.

Thomas Keirstead teaches Japanese history and historiography in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. Trained as a medievalist, he has also written on early modern and modern conceptions of the past as it appears in a variety of genres, including film, anime, and historical fiction.

Tarif Khalidi was educated at University College, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. He is currently Shaykh Zayid Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies, American University of Beirut, and was formerly Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic and Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. His recent publications include: Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period (1994), The Muslim Jesus (2001), The Qur’an, A New Translation (2008), and Images of Muhammad (2009).

Karen Ordahl Kupperman, PhD Cantab, is Silver Professor of History Emerita at New York University. She is the author of The Jamestown Project (2007) and The Atlantic in World History (2012). Among her awards are the AHA Prize in Atlantic History and the AHA’s Beveridge Prize.

Michael Lang is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Maine, where he teaches intellectual history, historiography, and international affairs. His research focuses on modern European conceptions of global order.

Ethan L. Menchinger is a PhD candidate in Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. His research and publications focus on the early modern Ottoman Empire, with special interest in historical writing, knowledge transmission, and intellectual life. He also translates.

Viren Murthy teaches transnational Asian History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and researches Chinese and Japanese intellectual history. He is the author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness (2011) and is currently working on a project tentatively entitled: Imagining Asia: Takeuchi Yoshimi and the Conundrums of Asian Modernity.

Klaus Neumann is a trained historian and Professor of History at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He is currently working on two projects: one concerned with forced migration, and the other with historical justice. Relevant publications include, among others, Shifting Memories: The Nazi Past in the New Germany (2000).

Rosalind O’Hanlon, MA, PhD, is Professor of Indian History and Culture in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford. Her research interests lie in the social and intellectual history of early modern and colonial India. Her recent publications include Religious Cultures in Early Modern India: New Perspectives (2011, edited with David Washbrook) and numerous articles.

Ravi Arvind Palat is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and has previously taught Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Sociology at the University of Auckland. He works in the broadly defined fields of historical sociology and political economy. He is the author of Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim and is currently completing a book titled Princes, Paddyfields, and Bazaars: Wet-Rice Cultivation and the Emergence of the Indian Ocean World-System, 1250–1650.

Michael Pearson is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Among his recent books are Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era (1998, paperback edition, 2003); The Indian Ocean (2003, paperback 2008); The World of the Indian Ocean, 1500–1800: Studies in Economic, Social and Cultural History (2005); he is also co-editor, with Pamila Gupta and Isabel Hofmeyr, of Eyes Across the Water: Navigating the Indian Ocean (2010).

Jennifer Pitts is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and author of A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France (2005). Her current research explores European debates over legal relations with non-European societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Kenneth Pomeranz is University Professor of History at the University of Chicago, and President of the American Historical Association. His publications include The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy and The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society and Economy in Inland North China, 1853–1937.

Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. He is the author of The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China and To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China, as well as the co-author, with Adam Seligman, Robert Weller, and Bennett Simon, of Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity.

Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin is a Professor in the Department of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Among his publications are The Censor, the Editor, and the Text: Catholic Censorship and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon in the Sixteenth Century (2007) and Exil et souveraineté: judaïsme, sionisme et pensée binationale. Preface de Carlo Ginzburg (2007).

Andrew Sartori is Associate Professor of History at NYU. He is the author of Bengal in Global Concept History, and the co-editor of Global Intellectual History and...