Arjun Appadurai
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs; John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences.
PhD 1976, University of Chicago.
Office: 66 West 12th Street, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Telephone: (212) 229-8947
Fax: (212) 229-8583

Academic Homepage: www.appadurai.com

Concentrations:
Historical anthropology; anthropology of globalization; ethnic violence; consumption; space and housing; international civil society; urban South Asia.

Current research:
anthropology of global violence; Asian mega-cities; grassroots political activist networks in India and South Asia; cultural pluralism.

Publications:
Space, Uncertainty, and Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization (forthcoming); "Museums are Good to Think: Heritage on View in India," in D. Preziosi and C. Farago (Eds.), Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum (coauthor, 2004); "Knowledge, Circulation, and Collective Biography," in J. Assayag and V. Bénéï (Eds.), At Home in Diaspora: South Asian Scholars and the West (2003); "Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics," Public Culture (2002); Globalization (editor, 2001); "The Grounds of the Nation-State," in Kjell Goldmann, Ulf Hannerz, and Charles Westin (Eds.), Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-Cold War Era (2000); "Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination," Public Culture (2000); "Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai," Public Culture (2000); India After Empire (1999); "Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization," Public Culture (1998); "Full Attachment," Public Culture (1998); Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996); "Cities and Citizenship," Public Culture (coauthor, 1996); Anthropology of Consumption: A Transnational Perspective (1994); "Patriotism and its Futures," Public Culture (1993); Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions (coeditor, 1991); The Making of a Transnational Culture: Asians in America and the Nature of Ethnicity (coeditor, 1990); "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy," Public Culture (1990); The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (editor, 1988); Worship and Conflict Under Colonial Rule: A South Indian Case (1981).