Nicholas Dirks
Nicholas Dirks | |
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Dirks in 2015 | |
| 10th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley | |
| In office June 1, 2013 – June 30, 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Robert J. Birgeneau |
| Succeeded by | Carol T. Christ |
| Personal details | |
| Spouse | Janaki Bakhle |
| Education | Wesleyan University (BA) University of Chicago (MA, PhD) |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Little kingdoms of South India: Political authority and social relations in the southern Tamil countryside (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bernard Cohn |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historical anthropology |
| Institutions | |
| Main interests | British colonial rule |
| Notable works | The Scandal of Empire (2006) |
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Nicholas B. Dirks is an American academic and a former Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. Dirks is the author of numerous books on South Asian history and culture, primarily concerned with the impact of British colonial rule. In June 2020, Dirks was named president and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences.