Vivek Chibber

Vivek Chibber
Vivek Chibber at the 8th Subversive Film Festival in Zagreb, Croatia on May 14, 2015
Occupation	Professor
Academic background
Education	Ph.D.
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin, Madison, Northwestern University
Thesis title	Locked in place: State building and the failure of industrial policy in India, 1940–1970
Thesis year	1999
School or tradition	Analytical Marxism
Doctoral advisor	Erik Olin Wright
Academic work
Discipline	Sociologist
Sub discipline	Historical sociology, Economic sociology, Political sociology, Marxism
Institutions	New York University
Main interests	Economic sociology, sociology of development, Marxian theory, political sociology, comparative-historical sociology, social theory

Vivek Chibber is an American academic, Marxist theorist, editor, and professor of sociology at New York University.

He is the author of two books and a contributor to New Left Review. In his second book, he argued that postcolonial studies are based on three false premises. His analysis is based on critiques of the works of Ranajit Guha and Dipesh Chakrabarty to argue that false analyses of Indian and European history lead to false premises of Subaltern Studies. He argues for universalism.

Chibber was born in India, and moved to United States, where he completed his BA in political science in 1987 at Northwestern University. In 1999, he finished his PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin, where his dissertation was supervised by Erik Olin Wright.

He has served with various publications and journals. He currently serves as the co-editor of Socialist Register, for which he was a member of the editorial collective from 2003 to 2006 and advisory editor from 2006 to 2008. He is also an advisory editor to the Journal of Agrarian Change (since 2000) and Historical Materialism' (since 2002).

He has previously served as an advisory editor to numerous journals, including American Journal of Sociology (2007–9), The Journal of Peasant Studies (1999–2000), British Journal of Sociology (2008–13), and Sociological Theory (2009–14). He has also been a member of editorial board of the Journal of Politics & Society (2003–8).