Vijay Prashad

EN / Executive director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and the Chief Editor of the New Dehli-based LeftWord Books and has held the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History at Hartford’s Trinity College (1996-2017) and the Edward Said Chair at the American University of Beirut (2013-14). He is the author of many books, among them The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (2007), The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (2013), and Red Star Over the Third World (2019).

DE / Geschäftsführender Direktor des TriContinental Institute for Social Research und Chefredakteur des in New Dehli ansässigen Verlags LeftWord Books. Er hatte den George- und Martha-Kellner-Lehrstuhl für südasiatische Geschichte am Trinity College in Hartford (1996-2017) und den Edward-Said-Lehrstuhl an der American University of Beirut (2013-14) inne. Er ist der Autor zahlreicher Bücher, darunter The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (2007), The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (2013) und Red Star Over the Third World (2019).