Subrahmanyam elected to the Collège de France

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA’s Doshi Professor of Pre-Modern Indian History and director of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, has been elected to the Collège de France, a renown Paris-based academic institution founded in 1530 by King Francis I of France.

 

Subrahmanyam, who will begin to split his time between UCLA and the Collège beginning this fall, will become one of 52 permanent professors in the institution and will be responsible for covering the field of "histoire globale de la première modernité" (early modern world history). Professor Subrahmanyam’s appointment was approved on April 19, 2013, by the president of France. 

 

The faculty of the Collège de France currently comprises professors who are elected by professors from among Francophone scholars in subjects that include mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, history, archaeology, linguistics, oriental studies, philosophy, the social sciences and other fields.