Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai (born 1949) is a contemporary social-cultural anthropologist recognised as a major theorist in globalization studies. In his anthropological work, he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation states and globalization.
Arjun Appadurai, was born in 1949 and raised in Bombay, India, and went to the United States where he obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He was the former University of Chicago professor of anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Humanities Dean of the University of Chicago, director of the city center and globalization at Yale University, he was a senior tutor at New College of the Global Initiative, and the Education and Human Development Studies professor at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture. Arjun Appadurai has presided over Chicago globalization plan, as many public and private organizations (such as the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, UNESCO, the World Bank, etc.) consultant and long-term concern issues of globalization, modernity and ethnic conflicts. “Some of his most important works include Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule(1981), Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (1990), of which an expanded version is found in Modernity at Large (1996), andFear of Small Numbers (2006). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.”