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
Office Phone:	+1 919 684 3014
Email Address:
Web Pages:	https://history.duke.edu/people/prasenjit-duara http://sites.duke.edu/globalasiainitiative/

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• HISTORY 790S-05.01, GLOBAL CONNECTIONS (TOP) Synopsis

  Class Bldg 229, W 01:40 PM-04:10 PM

• EAS 700.01, EAST ASIAN STUDIES CORE COURSE Synopsis

  Class Bldg 106, Tu 01:40 PM-04:10 PM

  (also cross-listed as AMES 700.01, HISTORY 707.01, RELIGION 700.01)

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, Oceans, Gardens, and Jungles: World Politics and the Planet, Duke Global Working Paper Series no. 46 (April, 2022)
2. 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]
3. Duara, P, Foreword, Sacred Forests of Asia: Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation (January, 2022), pp. xv-xvii
4. Duara, P, THE END OF PAX AMERICANA: The Loss of Empire and Hikikomori Nationalism. Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society, PACIFIC AFFAIRS, vol. 95 no. 3 (2022), pp. 607-609
5. Duara, P, Oceans as the Paradigm of History, Theory, Culture and Society, vol. 38 no. 7-8 (December, 2021), pp. 143-166 [doi]  [abs]