Krishan Kumar is a University Professor and William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He was formerly Professor of Social and Political thought at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Cambridge and his graduate education at the London School of Economics. Among his publications are Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times(1987), 1989:Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals (1991), The Making of English National Identity (2003), From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society, 2nd ed. (2005), Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes shaped the World (2017), and Empires: A Historical and Political Sociology (2021).
