Prasenjit Duara

Prasenjit Duara (অসমীয়া: প্রসেনজিৎ দুৱঁৰা (Assamese), Chinese name: Chinese: 杜赞奇; pinyin: Dù Zànqí), originally from Assam, India, an historian of China, is Professor, Department of History, Duke University, after being the Raffles Professor of Humanities at the National University of Singapore where he was also Director of Asian Research Institute and Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. Duara also taught at George Mason University and the Department of History in the University of Chicago, where he was also chairman of the department from 2004-2007.

His Ph.D was obtained in 1983 from Harvard University, where he studied with Philip Kuhn. His doctoral thesis was "Power in Rural Society: North China Villages, 1900-1940."

In addition to Chinese history, he works more broadly on Asia in the twentieth century, and on historical thought and historiography. While his early work was on rural society in early 20th century China, he subsequently turned to studies of nationalism, imperialism, and origins of modern historical consciousness. His most recent work, featured in an interview with the New York Times in Oct 2016, deals with Asian religions and environmental sustainability. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/world/asia/china-religion-prasenjit-duara.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=1

Duara went to the The Doon School in India and studied history at St. Stephen's College, Delhi. After obtaining BA and MA in history from St. Stephen's College, Duara received his M. Phil in Chinese Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He then completed his PhD at Harvard University in History and East Asian languages in 1983.

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