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Guggenheim Fellows of Bengalee Origin (from Bengal)
--Mrinalini Sinha, Professor, Department of History,
University of Michigan (2012)
--Ananya Chatterjea, Associate professor of the College of Liberal Arts,
University of Minnesota, Choreographer. (2011)
--Sumit Guha, Professor of
History, Rutgers University: Governing Caste: Identity and power in
South Asia, 1600-1900. (2008)
--Jhumpa Lahiri, Writer, Brooklyn,
New York: Fiction. (2002)
--Dilip Mookherjee, Professor of Economics and Director, Institute of Economic
Development, Boston University: Land reforms and fiscal decentralization
in the economic development of West Bengal. (2001)
--Abhijit V. Banerjee, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology: The new economics of poverty. (2000)
--Rabi Bhattacharya, Professor of Mathematics, Indiana University: Studies
in Markov processes. (2000)
--Madhusree Mukerjee, Writer, Jackson Heights, New York; Editor, Scientific
American, New York City: The Andaman Islanders. (2000)
--Pallab K. Bhattacharya, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, University of Michigan: Photon localization in semiconductor heterostructures.
(1998)
--Sugata Bose, Professor of History and Diplomacy, and Director, Center for
South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Tufts University: Culture, economy,
and politics on the Indian Ocean rim, 1790-1990. (1997)
--Debraj Ray, Professor of Economics, Boston University: The economic impact
of inequality. (1997)
--Sadhan Kumar Adhikari, Professor of Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics,
Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil: The quantum mechanical
few-particle problem. (1996)
--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities,
Columbia University: Antiquity and cultural studies. (1995)
--Sudip Chakravarty, Professor of Physics, University of California, Los
Angeles: 1992: Studies in the superconductivity of fullerenes. (1992)
--Sunil Kumar Sinha, Physics, Senior Research Associate, Exxon Research and
Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey. (1982)
--Pranab Kumar Bardhan, Professor of Economics, University of California,
Berkeley. (1981)
--Bharati Mukherjee, Writer; Professor of English, University of California,
Berkeley. 1978)
--Mukul Kumar Majumdar, H. T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professor
of Economics, Cornell University. (1976)