Dipesh Chakrabarty is a Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished ServiceProfessor, Department of History and Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. He holds a visiting Professorial Fellowship at the Research School of Humanities at the Australian National University, and an Honorary Professorial Fellowship with the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is a founding member of the editorial collective of Subaltern Studies, a co-editor of Critical Inquiry, and a founding editor of Postcolonial Studies.

Professor Chakrabarty is currently completing two books to be published by the University of Chicago Press. They are provisionally entitled The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and the Birth of Historical Research in India and The Climate of History: Four Thesis. The Duke University Press is publishing a collection of his essays, entitled The Time of the Present.

Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty's ANU profile and full biography at University of Chicago.