Valentine Daniel

Valentine Daniel
Ethnicity Sri Lankan Tamil
Alma mater Amherst College
University of Chicago
Occupation Academic

Professor Errol Valentine Daniel is a Sri Lankan Tamil academic, anthropologist and author. He is currently Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Southern Asian Institute at Columbia University.[1][2]

Early life

Daniel was educated at Jaffna College.[3][4] After school he joined Amherst College from where he received a B.A. degree.[5] He then received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago.[5]

Career

Daniel taught at the University of Washington (1978-90).[6] He then taught at the University of Michigan (1990-97), serving as Director of the Program in Comparative Studies in Social Transformation from 1995 to 1997.[5] He then joined Columbia University. Daniel has also been a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam, University of Texas at Austin, Centre d’étude de l’Inde et de l’Asie Sud and United Nations University.[5]

Daniel was one of the recipients of the 1995 Guggenheim Fellowship.[5] He is proficient in Tamil, Sinhala, French and Malayalam.[5][7]

Works

Valentine has written several books:[1]

References

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