Nicholas Dirks

Nicholas Dirks
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
Nationality	American
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	California Institute of Technology University of Michigan Columbia University University of California, Berkeley
Main interests	British colonial rule
Notable works	The Scandal of Empire (2006)

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.^[1]