Über den Autor Manjapra, Kris
Kris Manjapra is an associate professor of history at Tufts University in the United States. He studied global, transnational, and comparative history at Harvard University. His fields of expertise include modern South Asia, modern Germany, the modern Caribbean and intellectual and social histories of the Global South. Manjapra's work adopts postcolonial and critical perspectives on the study of race, colonialism, diaspora, and capitalism. Manjapra's new research focuses on global plantation histories that connect the Caribbean Sea and the Indian Ocean in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kris Manjapra is the chair of the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University, and has held fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.Zeitalter der Verflechtungexplored the tangled cultural politics of Indian and German thinkers during the long nineteenth century, in the age of anti-colonial nationalism. It received the international 2019 Merck-Tagore Award.