Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, where he is also a Faculty Fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. Among his publications are Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, 2008; 2000) and The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (Chicago, 2021).