At home: this is Dina, me, and Mohona, celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. At work:  I am Professor of Political Economy and Globalization in the Department of History at New York University, also Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, where I received my BA/MA in South Asian Studies in 1972 and PhD in History in 1978. After two years on an NEH translation grant and one at the University of Virginia (replacing Walter Hauser on leave), I joined the Penn faculty, in 1981. I came to NYU in 2007. I chaired South Asia programs at Penn, the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright Senior Scholars program (CIES), and NYU. I served as President of the Association for Asian Studies and as Chair of the NYU Department of History. My research and teaching focus broadly on South Asian history, long-term globalization, and capitalist development regimes.

I retire from NYU on August 31, 2024. I am now focused on writing and ways to continue the work of the NYU Global Asia Program in New York, Shanghai, and Abu Dhabi. Links to my courses and to Global Asia material are on the Global Asia Resource Portal. Global Asia publications are featured in the Oxford University Press Online Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, where I am Editor-in-Chief. 

Here is my NYU History Department homepage. My updated CV and links to published and unpublished work are under the the LIBRARY tab. My old Penn homepage is still available but most links are dead: the only useful thing remaining is the Hindutva page, particularly concerning RSS-BJP-Hindutva public diplomacy in US Area Studies institutions (1,2,3), long before the BJP became dominant.  (That Hindutva archive is copied here.)