Prasenjit Duara, Oscar L. Tang Family Distinguished Professor of East Asian Studies

Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University. He was born and educated in India and received his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. He was previously Professor and Chair of the Dept of History and Chair of the Committee on Chinese Studies at the University of Chicago (1991-2008). Subsequently, he became Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director, Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore (2008-2015).

In 1988, he published Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (Stanford Univ Press) which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS, USA. Among his other books are Rescuing History from the Nation (U Chicago 1995), Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (Rowman 2003) and most recently, The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future  (Cambridge 2014). He has edited Decolonization: Now and Then (Routledge, 2004) and co-edited A Companion to Global Historical Thought with Viren Murthy and  Andrew Sartori (John Wiley, 2014). His work has been widely translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and the European languages.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	212A Classroom Building, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:
Web Pages:	https://history.duke.edu/people/prasenjit-duara http://sites.duke.edu/globalasiainitiative/

Office Hours:

Usually Tuesdays 2-4 pm; but please make an email appointment to see me ahead of time.  Classroom Building 212A

Education:

Ph.D.	Harvard University	1983
M.Phil.	Jawaharlal Nehru University (India)	1974
M.A.	University of Delhi (India)	1972
B.A.	University of Delhi (India)	1970

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Duara, P, Van der Braak, André, Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age: Charles Taylor and Zen Buddhism in the West, Dao, vol. 24 no. 1 (March, 2025), pp. 189-191, Springer Science and Business Media LLC [doi]
2. Duara, P, Biocultural Diversity in Monsoon Asia: The Mekong and the Forests, International Journal of Politics Culture and Society (January, 2025), Springer Science and Business Media LLC [doi]  [abs]
3. Duara, P; Huebner, S; Menon, D; Volland, N, Connecting Maritime Asia: A Roundtable Discussion on Eric Tagliacozzo, In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohoma, Verge Studies in Global Asias, vol. 10 no. 2 (September, 2024), pp. 43-62 [doi]
4. Duara, P, Oceans, Gardens, and Jungles: World Politics and the Planet, Duke Global Working Paper Series no. 46 (April, 2022)
5. Duara, P, David Abulafia, The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xxxii, 1050; color figures. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-1999-3498-0., Speculum, vol. 97 no. 2 (April, 2022), pp. 469-470, University of Chicago Press [doi]