Nicholas Dirks

President and Chief Executive Officer, The New York Academy of Sciences

1972, degree in Asian and African Studies, Wesleyan University; 1981, PhD, Department of History, University of Chicago. 1978-87, with Division of Humanities and Social Science, California Institute of Technology; Professor and Founding Director, Interdepartmental PhD Program of History and Anthropology, University of Michigan; Director, Advanced Study Center, International Institute. 1997, with Columbia University: Chair, Department of Anthropology; September 2004, Executive Vice-President, Arts and Sciences; Dean of Faculty; Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology. Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley 2012-2017. Author and editor of numerous books and articles including history anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of empire, historiography, cultural studies, globalization, and the university. Senior Advisor, Weill Family Foundation, Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Recipient of numerous fellowships and scholarships.

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