University of Chicago, PhD 2003
Andrew Sartori
Chair of The Department of History, Professor of History
Andrew Sartori is a historian of South Asia and imperial Britain. His work focuses on the relationship between concept-formation and the social practices associated with modern capitalism. His overarching program of research has been the problem of how people make sense of their own sociality, and he has published on the history of Bengali culturalism, imperial and vernacular languages of property and freedom, the history of economic thought, and global intellectual history. He is co-editor of the journal Critical Historical Studies.
Books
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Liberalism In EmpireUniversity of California Press Books, 2014
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A Companion To Global Historical Thoughtco-edited with Prasenjit Duara, and Viren Murthy (Wiley-Blackwell 2014)
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Global Intellectual Historyco-edited Samuel Moyn (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013)
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Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of CapitalChicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008
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From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transitionco-edited with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Rochona Majumdar (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, April 2007)
Some Recent Articles
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Silver and the Social in Locke’s Monetary ThoughtJournal of Modern History 93, no. 3 (2021), 501-32
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Empire, Sociality, and Political Economy in Colonial BengalInternational Journal of Asian Studies 18, no. 2 (2021), 173-84
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Genealogy, Critical Theory, HistoryCritical Historical Studies 7, no. 1 (2020), 63-74
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Property and Political Norms: Hanafi Juristic Discourse in Agrarian BengalModern Intellectual History 17, no. 2 (2020), 471-85
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The Labor Question and Political Thought in Colonial BengalThe Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 307-26ed. Murad Idris, Leigh Jenco and Megan Thomas
Contact Information
Andrew Sartori
Chair of The Department of History, Professor of History asartori@nyu.edu King Juan Carlos Center, Room 401Phone: (212) 998-8618