Sanjoy Chakravorty

Sanjoy Chakravorty

Associate Professor and Chair

Department of Geography and Urban Studies

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA 19122

Tel: 215.204.1434

Fax: 215.204.7833

Email: sanjoy@temple.edu

Research:

I am primarily interested in issues of development and distribution as they relate to spatial and social change. I do a fair amount of empirical work, though increasingly I have been focusing on theoretical issues. Some of my ideas on distributional theory have been published in a book from Routledge titled Fragments of Inequality: Social, Spatial, and Evolutionary Analyses of Income Distribution. The work draws on sociological, geographic, and economic theory to suggest a new theoretical framework for explaining distributional change. I and my co-author S. Lall have finished a new book manuscript titled Made in India: The Economic Geography and Political Economy of Industrialization which draws on the industry location work he and I have been doing for the last five to six years. This book is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. My interest in spatial analysis has resulted in a collaborative project, published as a book titled Urban Drug Markets. I have been involved in several research projects funded by the National Science Foundation (see report and new data set), the National Institute of Justice, the World Bank, and the American Institute of Indian Studies.  My research has been published in geography, development, planning, and economics journals.

These are some samples of recent writing. See the vita for a more complete list.