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Arjun Appadurai Professor Appadurai was born and educated in Bombay. He graduated from St. Xavier’s High School and took his Intermediate Arts degree from Elphinstone College before coming to the United States. He took his B.A. from Brandeis University in 1967, and his M.A. and Ph.D. (1976) from the University of Chicago. During his academic career, he has also taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania, and has held visiting appointments at the University of Delhi, the University of Michigan, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Iowa, Columbia University and New York University. He also held Distinguished Chairs at the University of Chicago and at Yale University. He serves on numerous scholarly and advisory bodies in the United States, Latin America, Europe and India. He has authored numerous books and scholarly articles. His most recent book is Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, (1996, University of Minnesota Press; 1997, Oxford University Press, Delhi). That work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese (forthcoming). His previous scholarly publications have covered such topics as religion, cuisine, agriculture and mass culture in India. He is one of the founding editors, along with Carol A. Breckenridge, of the journal Public Culture and was the founding Director of the Chicago Humanities Institute at the University of Chicago (1992-1998), during which time he held the Richard J. and Barbara E. Franke Professorship. He is one of the founders of the Interdisciplinary Network on Globalization, a consortium of institutions in various parts of the world devoted to the study of global politics and culture. Arjun Appadurai has held numerous fellowships and scholarships and has received several scholarly honors, including residential fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto (California) and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and an Individual Research Fellowship from the Open Society Institute (New York). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He serves or has served on numerous national and international advisory bodies, including the advisory council of the Smithsonian Institute, and the governing boards of: the Center for Arts and Culture (Washington, DC), the Institute for Cultural Pluralism (Rio de Janeiro), the Research Center for Religion and Society (Amsterdam), Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, and the Social Science Research Council (New York). He has served as a consultant or advisor to a wide range of public
and private organizations, including many major foundations (Ford,
MacArthur, and Rockefeller); UNESCO; UNDP; WIDER (World Institute
for Development Economics Research); the World Bank; the National
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Arjun Appadurai serves as Provost and Senior Vice President for
Academic Affairs at New School University in New York City, where
he also holds a Distinguished Professorship as the John Dewey
Professor in the Social Sciences. Until recently, Arjun Appadurai
was the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of International Studies,
a Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Center on Cities
and Globalization at Yale University. Professor Appadurai is
an Indian citizen and a legal resident of the United States.
Appadurai is the founder and now the President of PUKAR (Partners
for Urban Knowledge Action and Research), a non-profit group
of practically-oriented researchers concerned with urban global
issues, based in and oriented to the city of Mumbai (India).
