Prasenjit Duara | |
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| অসমীয়া: প্রসেনজিৎ দুৱৰা | |
 Duara in May 2022 | |
| Born | Assam, India |
| Other names | 杜赞奇 (Dù Zànqí) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Power in Rural Society: North China Villages, 1900–1940 (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Philip Kuhn |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Duke University |
Prasenjit Duara (Assamese:অসমীয়া: প্রসেনজিৎ দুৱৰাChinese:杜赞奇;pinyin:Dù Zànqí), originally fromAssam,India, a historian of China, is Oscar Tang Family Distinguished Professor, Department of History,Duke University,[1] after being the Raffles Professor of Humanities at theNational University of Singapore where he was also Director of Asian Research Institute and Director of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences.[2] Duara also taught atGeorge Mason University and the Department of History in theUniversity of Chicago, where he was chairman of the department from 2004–2007.
Duara obtained his Ph.D. in 1983 fromHarvard University, where he studied withPhilip Kuhn. His doctoral thesis was "Power in Rural Society: North China Villages, 1900–1940."[3] His first book,Culture, Power and the State: Rural Society in North China, 1900–1942 (Stanford Univ Press, 1988) won theJohn King Fairbank book prize of the American Historical Association 1989) and theJoseph Levenson prize for the Association for Asian Studies (1990).
In addition to Chinese history, he works more broadly on Asia in the twentieth century, and on historical thought and the historiography. While his early work was on rural society in early 20th century China, he subsequently turned to studies ofnationalism,imperialism, and origins of modern historical consciousness. In an interview inThe New York Times about his work on Asian religions andenvironmental sustainability,Ian Johnson called him "one of the most original thinkers on culture and religion in Asia."[4] He has served as President of the Association for Asian Studies which has a global membership of about 7000 scholars (2019–2020).
Duara attended theDoon School in Dehradun, India and studied history atSt. Stephen's College, Delhi.[5] After obtainingB.A. andM.A. in history from St. Stephen's College, Duara received hisM. Phil in Chinese Studies fromJawaharlal Nehru University. He then completed hisPh.D. at Harvard University in History and East Asian languages in 1983.
Duara has taught atPrinceton University,George Mason University and has been a Mellon Faculty Fellow atStanford University.[6][7] From 1990 until 2008, he taught at theUniversity of Chicago where he was Chair of the China Studies Committee (1994–1996) and subsequently, Chair of the History Department (2004–2007).[8] He was the Raffles Professor of Humanities at theNational University of Singapore from 2009 to 2015. In January 2016 he joined Duke University as the Oscar Tang Chair Professor of East Asian Studies. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (doctor philosophiae honoris causa) by the University of Oslo in 2017. He was president of theAssociation for Asian Studies for 2019–2020.
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New York Times discussion of book,https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/world/asia/china-religion-prasenjit-duara.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=1
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