Sanjoy Chakravorty

Areas of Expertise:

Distribution, Development, Globalization, Cities, Regions

Education:

1992 - Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Southern California.
1983 - B.E in Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta.

Research:

Professor Chakravorty is primarily interested in issues of distribution: of income, and over space. He does a fair amount of empirical work, although increasingly he has been focusing on theoretical issues, and lately on book-length works. Fragments of Inequality: Social, Spatial, and Evolutionary Analyses of Income Distribution (Routledge, 2006) describes much of his current thinking on structure and change in income distributions. Made in India : The Economic Geography and Political Economy of Industrialization (Oxford University Press, 2007) draws on the industry location work he has been doing for the last five to six years, often with Somik Lall. Professor Chakravorty's research has been funded by several institutions, including: the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, The World Bank, and the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Recent publications (last 3 years):

Books

Chakravorty, S. and S. Lall. 2007. Made in India : The Economic Geography and Political Economy of Industrialization . Oxford University Press.

Chakravorty, S. 2006. Fragments of Inequality: Social, Spatial, and Evolutionary Analyses of Income Distribution . Routledge.

G. Rengert, J. Ratcliffe, and S. Chakravorty. 2005. Policing Illegal Drug Markets: Geographic Approaches to Crime Reduction . Criminal Justice Press.

Papers/Chapters

Stahhler, G.J., Mazella, S., Mennis, J., Chakravorty, S., Rengert, G., and Spiga, R. 2006. The Effect of Individual, Program, and Neighborhood Variables on Continuity of Treatment Among Dually Diagnosed Individuals. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Chakravorty, S., J. Koo, and S. Lall. Do Localization Economies Matter in Cluster Formation? Questioning the Conventional Wisdom with Data from Indian Metropolises. Environment and Planning A 37:331-353.

Lall, S. and S. Chakravorty. 2005. Industrial Location and Spatial Inequality: Theory and Evidence from India . Review of Development Economics 9: 47-68.

Reprinted in Spatial Disaparities in Human Development: Perspectives from Asia . Eds., R. Kanbur and A. Venables. Tokyo : United Nations University Press, 2006.

Chakravorty, S. 2005. From Colonial City to Global City? The Far-From-Complete Spatial Transformation of Calcutta , in The Urban Geography Reader . Eds. N.R. Fyfe and J.T. Kenny. London and New York : Routledge, pp. 84-92.

Reprinted from a chapter with the same name in Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? Eds. P. Marcuse and R. van Kempen. Oxford : Blackwell. Pp. 56-77.

Chakravorty, S. 2005. The History and Geography of Regional Development Theory: A Futile Search for a Paradigm. In Development, Displacement and Disparity – India in the Last Quarter of the 20 th Century . Eds., S. Marjit and N. Banerjee. New Delhi : Orient-Longman, pp. 29-52.