Vijay Prashad
Indian historian and journalist (born 1967) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, author, journalist, political commentator, and Marxist intellectual.[1][2] He is the executive-director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Editor of LeftWord Books, Chief Correspondent at Globetrotter,[3] and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China.[4] Ideologically a Marxist, Prashad is well known for his criticisms of capitalism, neocolonialism, American exceptionalism, and Western imperialism, while expressing support for communism and the global south.[5][6][7]
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Previously, Prashad has been the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and a professor of international studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, from 1996 to 2017. Presently, he is an advisory board member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, part of the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement,[8][9] and co-founder of the Forum of Indian Leftists (FOIL).[1][10]
Prashad has provided reporting and political commentary for several publications, including Monthly Review,[11] The Nation,[12] and Salon.[13]