Nicholas B. Dirks

Nicholas B. Dirks served as Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, between 2013 and 2017. He is currently President and CEO of the historic New York Academy of Sciences, founded in 1817. Previous positions he has held include Executive VP and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University, where he was also the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and History. Professor Dirks is the author of Autobiography of an Archive (2015), The Scandal of Empire (2006),...See more

Nicholas B. Dirks served as Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, between 2013 and 2017. He is currently President and CEO of the historic New York Academy of Sciences, founded in 1817. Previous positions he has held include Executive VP and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University, where he was also the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and History. Professor Dirks is the author of Autobiography of an Archive (2015), The Scandal of Empire (2006), Castes of Mind (2001, for which he won the Lionel Trilling Award), and The Hollow Crown (Cambridge University Press, 1987). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a senior member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In addition, he has been a MacArthur fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and has also held a Guggenheim fellowship. See less