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CHANCELLOR NICHOLAS B. DIRKS⏐CURRICULUM VITAE 1

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NicholasB.Dirks

NICHOLASB.DIRKSwasnamedthe10thchancelloroftheUniversityofCalifornia,BerkeleyonNovember8,2012,andservedinthatrolebetweenJune1,2013andJuly1,2017.Aninternationallyrenownedhistorianandanthropologist,heisaleaderinhighereducationandwell-knownforhiscommitmenttoandadvocacyforaccessible,high-qualityundergraduateeducation,totheglobalizationoftheuniversity,andtoinnovationandcollaborationacrossthedisciplinesandbetweenuniversitiesandoutsidepartners.

Whilechancellor,Dirkslaunchedanundergraduateinitiative,whichoccasionedunprecedentedcooperationamongthedeansofundergraduatecollegesandtheappointmentofthefirstViceChancellorofUndergraduateEducation.Dirksconvenedagroupoffacultywhodevelopedanewsetofcoursesindatascienceacrossthecurriculum(andledtotheappointment

ofthefirstDeanofDataScience).Heoversawthedevelopmentofthefirstfullyresidentialcollegedormitory,andlaunchedaninitiativeinartsanddesign.Heinvestedinmajorresearchcollaborationsinneuroscienceandgenomics,developedacloseworkingrelationshipwithUCSF,andhelpednegotiateBerkeley’sparticipationinthe$600mChanZuckerbergBiohub.Dirksestablishedtwoimportanttaskforcesinathletics,onetoimprovetheacademicperformanceandcommitmentofstudentathletes,theothertoformulateaplanforlong-termfinancialsustainability.Heappointedthefirstcampusleadtoguideeffortstocombatsexualviolenceandsexualharassmentwhilechangingcampuslevelproceduresandinvestingsignificantadditionalresources.DirksestablishednewglobalpartnershipswithCambridgeUniversityandtheNationalUniversityofSingapore,whiledevelopingtheTsinghuaBerkeleyShenzhenInstituteandajointclimateinstitutewiththeBerkeleyLabandTsinghuaUniversity.Dirksrevampedthedevelopmentoperation(Fundraising2.0)andpresidedoverrecordbreakingfundraisingefforts,whilespearheadingeffortstopromotemoreexpansivealumnirelations.Dirkstookonunprecedentedchallengesaroundthefinancialhealthoftheuniversity,spearheadingacampuswidediscussionaroundstrategicplanningandbeginningtheprocessofbringingthebudgetbackintolong-termbalance.Finally,DirksmaintainedtheunparalleledexcellenceofBerkeleyasindicatedineverymajorranking,anddidsowhilefocusingonincreasingaccessibilityforlowincomeandunderrepresentedstudents.

BeforecomingtoBerkeley,hewastheexecutivevicepresidentfortheartsandsciencesanddeanofthefacultyatColumbiaUniversity,where,inadditiontohisworkonbehalfofundergraduateprograms,heimprovedanddiversifiedthefaculty,puttingspecialemphasisoninterdisciplinaryandinternationalinitiatives.TheFranzBoasProfessorofAnthropologyandHistory,DirksjoinedColumbiain1997aschairoftheanthropologydepartment.PriortohisappointmentatColumbia,hewasaprofessorofhistoryandanthropologyattheUniversityofMichiganfor10years,beforewhichhetaughtAsianhistoryandcivilizationattheCaliforniaInstituteofTechnology.HereceivedhisB.A.fromWesleyanUniversity,andhisM.A.andPh.D.attheUniversityofChicago.Hehaspublishedfourmajorbooks,editedthreemore,andwrittennumerousessays,articles,andpapers.

Dirkshasheldnumerousfellowshipsandscholarshipsandreceivedseveralscholarlyhonors,includingaGuggenheimFellowship,aMacArthurFoundationresidentialfellowshipattheInstituteforAdvancedStudyatPrinceton,andtheLionelTrillingAwardforhisbookCastesofMind.HeisafellowoftheAmericanAcademyofArtsandSciences,andhasservedonnumerousnationalandinternationalbodieswhilereceivinghonorarydegreesinBeijing,China,andMadras,India.HeisaSeniorFellowattheCouncilonForeignRelations.


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ACADEMICTRAINING

TheUniversityofChicago,Chicago,IL1972–78Ph.D.1981,DepartmentofHistoryFIELDS:SouthAsianHistory(Modern,Ancient,Medieval);AnthropologyM.A.1974,DepartmentofHistoryWesleyanUniversity,Middletown,CT.B.A.,1968–72MAJORPROGRAM:AfricanandAsianStudiesintheCollegeofSocialStudies EMPLOYMENT

Chancellor,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,2013–2017.

ProfessorofHistory,ProfessorofAnthropology,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,2013-

ExecutiveVicePresidentandDeanoftheFacultyoftheArtsandSciences,ColumbiaUniversity,2009-2012.

VicePresidentoftheArtsandSciencesandDeanoftheFaculty,ColumbiaUniversity,2004-2009.

FranzBoasProfessorofAnthropologyandHistory,ColumbiaUniversity,February2000-2013.

ProfessorofAnthropologyandHistory,ColumbiaUniversity,July1997-2000.

ProfessorofHistoryandAnthropology,TheUniversityofMichigan,May1990-June1997.

DirecteurD’EtudesAssocié,attheEcoledesHautesEtudesenSciencesSociales,Paris,January-April1992.

AssociateProfessorofHistory,TheUniversityofMichigan,September1987-May1990.

AssociateProfessorofHistory,DivisionofHumanitiesandSocialSciences,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology,January1986-August1987.

AcademicVisitor,DepartmentofAnthropology,LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience,January-December1986.

AssistantProfessorofHistory,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology,Pasadena,CA,September1980-December1985.

InstructorinAsianHistory,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology,Pasadena,CA,September1978-August1980.

Part-timeInstructorinCulturalAnthropology,GeorgeWilliamsCollege,DownersGrove,IL,Autumn1973.

PROFESSIONALPOSITIONS

Chair,GlobalUniversityLeadersForum(GULF),WorldEconomicForum;2016-2017

Member,TheVistriaGroupEducationAdvisoryBoard;2015–

Member,UniversityDevelopmentTrust,SacramentoCA,AdvisoryBoard;2015-

Member,KnowledgeNetworksAdvisoryBoard,WorldEconomicForum;2014-

Member,GlobalAgendaCouncilonGlobalGovernance,WorldEconomicForum;2014-Member,UniversityofthePeople,PresidentialAdvisoryBoard;2014-

Member,SingaporeMinistryofEducation,AcademicResearchCouncil;2014-

Member,InternationalAllianceofResearchUniversities;2013-,Chair,2017

Member,TannerLecturesBoardofTrustees;2013-2017


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Pac-12CEOGroupandBoardofManagers;2013-2017

SeniorFellow,CouncilonForeignRelations,NewYork,2005-

Trustee,BoardofTrustees,ColumbiaUniversityPress,2003–2012.

Chair,FacultyPublicationsBoard,ColumbiaUniversityPress,2003–2005.

SeriesEditor,“CulturesofHistory,”ColumbiaUniversityPress,2002–

FacultyBoard,ColumbiaUniversityPress,2001–2003.

Chair,DepartmentofAnthropology,ColumbiaUniversity,1997–2003.

Director,AdvancedStudyCenteroftheInternationalInstituteattheUniversityofMichigan,1995–1997.

Director,CenterforSouthandSoutheastAsianStudiesattheUniversityofMichigan,1992–1995.

Co-founderandDirector,InterdepartmentalPrograminAnthropologyandHistoryattheUniversityofMichigan,1988-1997

PUBLICATIONS Books

AutobiographyofanArchive:AScholar’sPassagetoIndia.NewYork:ColumbiaUniversityPress,2015.

TheScandalofEmpire:IndiaandtheCreationofImperialBritain.Cambridge:BelknapImprint,HarvardUniversityPress,2006.

CastesofMind:ColonialismandtheMakingofModernIndia.Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,2001;NewDelhi:PermanentBlack,2002.

InNearRuins:CulturalTheoryattheendoftheCentury.Ed.Minneapolis:UniversityofMinnesotaPress,1998.

ColonialismandCulture.Ed.AnnArbor:TheUniversityofMichiganPress,1992(withintroductionentitled“ColonialismandCulture,”andarticle,“FromLittleKingtoLandlord:ColonialDiscourseandColonialRule”).

Culture/Power/History:AReaderinContemporarySocialTheory.Eds.GeoffEleyandSherryOrtner.Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,1993.

TheHollowCrown:EthnohistoryofanIndianKingdom.1sted.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1987.2nded.AnnArbor:UniversityofMichiganPress,1993.

Articles–HigherEducation

“Makingadifferenceinfouryears”inTheDailyCalifornian,May2017.http://www.dailycal.org/2017/05/04/making-difference-4-years-uc-berkeley/

“Berkeleyisunderattackfrombothsides”intheNewYorkTimes,April2017.http://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/opinion/berkeley-is-under-attack-from-both-sides.html

“Berkeley’sDirksReflectsonTumultuousTenure”inTheChronicleofHigherEducation,April2017.http://www.chronicle.com/article/Berkeley-s-Dirks-Reflects-on/239891

“TopUniversitiesmustenrollmorelow-incomestudents”inTheSanFranciscoChronicle,February2017.http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Universities-must-enroll-more-low-income-students-10955279.php


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“TheEvolutionofglobalizedHigherEducation”withNilsGilmaninUniversityPrioritiesandConstraints.Eds.LucE.WeberandJamesJ.Duderstadt.Economica,GlionColloquiumSeriesNo.9:London,Paris,Geneve,2016

“Flagshipsmustcreatenewmodelstopreservethepublicgood”inTheChronicleofHigherEducation,July2016.http://chronicle.com/article/Flagships-Must-Create-New/237055

“Challengescreatestrongercampusandcommunity”inTheDailyCalifornia,May2016.http://dailycal.org/2016/05/09/356626

“Newemphasisondatasciencevaluabletostudentsinallfields”inTheDailyCalifornian,February2016.http://www.dailycal.org/2016/03/01/346188/

"Berkeley'snewapproachtoglobalengagement:Earlyandcurrenteffortstobecomemoreinternational"intheUCBerkeleyCenterforStudiesinHigherEducation'sResearch&OccasionalPaperSeries,December2015.http://www.cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/berkeleys-new-approach-global-engagement-early-current-efforts-become-more

“TheLiberalArtsandtheUniversity:LessonsforChinaintheHistoryofUndergraduateEducationIntheUSandattheUniversityofCalifornia”inExperiencesinLiberalArtsandSciencesEducationfromAmerica,Europe,andAsia:ADialogueacrossContinents.Ed.WilliamKirbyandMarijkvanderWende.PalgraveMacmillan,UK,2015.

"Campusstaffprofessionalsdeserveinfinitegratitude"inTheDailyCalifornian,December2015.http://www.dailycal.org/2015/12/04/338180/

"Exposuretoartscentraltoundegraduateexperience"inTheDailyCalifornian,November2015.http://www.dailycal.org/2015/11/20/exposure-to-arts-central-to-undergraduate-experience/

“TheFutureofWorldClassUniversities”inUniversityWorldNews,October2,2015

"Ourstudent-athletescanexcelontwofronts"inTheDailyCalifornian,October2015.http://www.dailycal.org/2015/10/20/our-student-athletes-can-excel-on-two-fronts/

"DuBois'sideologystillrelevanttoday"inTheDailyCalifornian,September2015.http://www.dailycal.org/2015/09/22/du-bois-ideology-still-relevant-today/

"TheLiberalArtsandTheUniversity:TracingtheOriginsandStructureofUndergraduateEducationIntheUSandattheUniversityOfCalifornia"intheUCBerkeleyCenterforStudiesinHigherEducation'sResearch&OccasionalPaperSeries,June2015.http://www.cshe.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/shared/publications/docs/ROPS.CSHE_.7.15.Dirks_.UGEducation.6.16.2015%20%281%29.pdf

"Intercollegiateathleticscrucialtoacademicvalues"inTheDailyCalifornian,June2015.http://www.dailycal.org/2015/06/01/intercollegiate-athletics-crucial-to-academic-values/

"Rebirthoftheresearchuniversity"intheChronicleofHigherEducation,April2015.https://chronicle.com/article/Rebirth-of-the-University/229585/

"Discourseonfreespeech,civilitygivesuslessonstotakeforward"inTheDailyCalifornian,April2015.http://www.dailycal.org/2015/04/10/chancellors-corner-discourse-on-free-speech-civility-gives-us-lessons-to-take-forward/

"Howweareimprovingtheundergraduateexperience"inTheDailyCalifornian,March2015.http://www.dailycal.org/2015/03/06/how-we-are-improving-the-undergraduate-experience/

"Traditionsofexcellenceworthmaintaining"inTheDailyCalifornian,February2015.http://www.dailycal.org/2015/02/06/chancellors-corner-traditions-excellence-worth-maintaining/


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"MypassagetoIndia"onTheBerkeleyBlog,February2015.http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2015/02/02/my-passage-to-india/

"WhyImisstheculturewars"inTheChronicleofHigherEducation,February2015.http://chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Miss-the-Culture-Wars/151435/

"Howareuniversitiesadaptingtoglobalization?"ontheWorldEconomicForumblog,January2015.https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/01/how-are-universities-adapting-to-globalization/

"LeadingaglobaltransformationoftheAmericanresearchuniversity"inTheHuffingtonPost,January2015.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-b-dirks/leading-a-global-transfor_b_6517758.html

“Ourglobaluniversity:WhatmightthismeanforBerkeleyStudents?”inTheDailyCalifornian,November2014.http://www.dailycal.org/2014/11/25/global-university-might-mean-berkeley-students/

“Leadyourgenerationwithavote,”inTheDailyCalifornian,October2014.http://www.dailycal.org/2014/10/31/chancellors-corner-lead-generation-vote/“Reaffirmingrolesofintercollegiatestudent-athletes,coaches,staff,”inTheDailyCalifornian,September2014.http://www.dailycal.org/2014/09/30/chancellors-corner-reaffirming-roles-intercollegiate-student-athletes-coaches-staff/“Berkeley’sforecast:sunshineafterthestorm,”inTheTimes–HigherEducationSupplement,October2014.http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2014-15/world-ranking/analysis/berkeleys-forecast-sunshine-after-the-storm

“ReflectingonthelegacyoftheFreeSpeechMovement,”inTheDailyCalifornian,October2014.http://www.dailycal.org/2014/10/10/reflecting-legacy-free-speech-movement/

“Reimaginingthefuture,notjustforourselves,butforall,”inTheDailyCalifornian,August2014.http://www.dailycal.org/2014/08/29/chancellors-corner-reimagining-future-just/

“WhatIvoryTowerGetsWrong,”inTheChronicleofHigherEducation,July2014.http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/07/22/what-ivory-tower-gets-wrong/

“Together,ourschoolcancontinuetolead,”inTheDailyCalifornian,February2014.http://www.dailycal.org/2014/02/21/together-school-can-continue-lead/

“UtopianPastsandFutures,”inTheHuffingtonPost,January2014.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-b-dirks/utopian-pasts-and-futures_b_4648387.html

“AbrighteroutlookforhighereducationinCalifornia,”intheLosAngelesTimes,July2013.http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jul/12/opinion/la-oe-dirks-uc-tuition-20130712

“Scholars,Spies,andGlobalStudies,”inTheChronicleofHigherEducation,August2012.https://chronicle.com/article/Scholars-SpiesGlobal/133459/

“FranzBoasandtheAmericanUniversity:APersonalAccount,”inProceedingsoftheAmericanPhilosophicalSociety.vol.154,no.1,March2010.

CURRENTWORK

TheUniversityandtheWorld:TheOpeningoftheAmericanMind.Bookprojectonthenatureofglobalknowledgeinthetwenty-firstcenturyandthechallengesofglobalizationforuniversities.

ScholarsandSpies.BookprojectontheroleofIndiaintheemerginginterestsoftheUnitedStatesinandafterWorldWarII,beginningwithanaccountoftheroleoftheOfficeofStrategicServicesinthedevelopmentofareastudies.


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PUBLICAPPEARANCESANDINTERVIEWS(ASUCBERKELEYCHANCELLOR)

“Berkeley’sDirksReflectsonTumultuousTenure”inTheChronicleofHigherEducation,April2017.http://www.chronicle.com/article/Berkeley-s-Dirks-Reflects-on/239891

OriginatorandHost:BerkeleyTalkshttp://calperformances.org/berkeley-talks/§ March2017:MarlonJames§ September2016:SteveKerr§ April2016:JonathanFranzen§ April2016:JaronLanier§ March2016:ReidHoffman§ February2016:EricSchmidt§ April2015:MichaelLewis§ February2015:MichaelOndaatje§ December2014:Yo-YoMa§ October2014:BassemYoussefJune2017PresidentialPanelattheUniversityofMichigan,FreeSpeechatBerkeley

June2017,AnnualMeetingoftheAPLU(WashingtonD.C.)FreeSpeechonAmericanCampusesJanuary2017WorldEconomicForum,DavosWelcomingremarksandfacilitator:“Globaluniversityleadersforum:UniversityCollaborationintheContextoftheFourthIndustrialRevolution.”

ParticipantsMarcBenioff,ChairmanandChiefExecutiveOfficer,Salesforce,USAKenHu,DeputyChairmanandRotatingChiefExecutiveOfficer,HuaweiTechnologiesCo.Ltd,People’s

RepublicofChinaBradfordL.Smith,PresidentandChiefLegalOfficer,MicrosoftCorporation,USANicholasDirks,Chancellor,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,USATonyF.Chan,President,TheHongKongUniversityofScienceandTechnology,HongKongSARSubraSuresh,President,CarnegieMellonUniversity,USA

IntroductionofUCBerkeleyIdeasLab:TheScienceofEmotionOctober17,2016NationalFulbrightAssociation,SFSpeech:“Fulbright,70YearsandCounting.”

September2016TimesHigherEducationWorldAcademicSummit,UCBerkeley§ Keynoteaddresstoopenthesymposiumforcommunicationsprofessionals:“BrandU:HowColleges,

UniversitiesandAcademeShapeTheirImages.”§ GalaDinnerspeaker;SummitClosing.

June2016,ConversationwithReidHoffman–atconferenceinSFforeducationfolks(ACE?)June2016BayAreaBookFestival,BerkeleyInterviewwithColmToibin.

May2,2016MilkenGlobalConference,LosAngelesPanelist/Speaker:“ProgressReport:EducationLeadersSoundOff.”

April15,2016.PublicConversationwithJohnHennessy,President,StanfordUniversity,atStanford,ontheFutureofOnlineEducation.

April2016ClintonGlobalInitiativeUniversityConference,UCBerkeley


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Openingremarks

February2016AmericanAssociationfortheAdvancementofScience(AAAS),Washington,DC.Openingremarks:“ThePublicFaceofScience,UCBerkeley”

January2016WesleyanAlumniinPhilanthropyandPublicService(WAPPS),SanFranciscoKeynote:“21stCenturySkillsandEducationalEquity.”

January2016WorldEconomicForum,DavosWelcomingremarksandfacilitator:“Globaluniversityleaderssession:TheFutureofJobs

ParticipantsJoeJimenez,CEO,NovartisSigfriedRusswurm,MembersoftheManagingBoard,SiemensSirLesezekBorysiewicz,Vice-Chancellor,UniversityofCambridgePatrickAebischer,President,EcolePolytechniqueFédéraledeLausanne(EPFL)

IntroductionofUCBerkeleyIdeasLab:“Fromnanotoneurological,howareemergingtechnologiesreinventingthenatureofmanufacturing.”

November18,2015ChurchillClub,SanJoseDialogbetweenUCBerkeleyChancellorNicholasDirksandStanfordPresidentJohnHennessy,withmoderatorQuentinHardy,DeputyTechnologyEditor,TheNewYorkTimes:“TheFutureofHigherEducation:What’satStake?”

October17,2015UnchartedIdeasFestival,BerkeleyBerkeleysideInterviewwithNewTimescolumnistQuentinHardy:“TheGlobalizationofEducation.”http://berkeleyside.libsyn.com/the-globalization-of-education

October1,2015TimesHigherEducationConferenceKeynoteSpeaker:“TheFutureofWorld-ClassUniversities.”

September17,2015NewYorkTimesConference,NewYorkPanelist:“BigStateUniversities:RewritingtheFuture”

SpeakersNicholasDirks,Chancellor,UniversityofCalifornia,BerkeleyMichaelMcRobbie,president,IndianaUniversityNancyZimpher,chancellor,StateUniversityofNewYorkModerator:DavidLeonhardt,editor,TheUpshot,TheNewYorkTimes

September2015:KeynoteaddresstoTimesHigherEducationWorldAcademicSummit,Melbourne,Australia.https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nicholas-dirks-public-universities-need-not-choose-between-access-and-excellence

June17-21,2015:GlionColloquium,BalancingExternalResponsibilitieswithUniversityPrioritiesandConstraints;Speaker;"GlobalKnowledgeandTheChangingConditionsForEducationalResearch"

May26,2015:InterviewwithTimesHigherEducationjournalists,LondonPhilBaty,ChrisHavergal,EllieBothwell

May11,2015:AspenInstituteTaskForceonCollegeOpportunityforHighAchievers,AspenPanelist:“WhatistheValueofaCollegeEducation”

April28,2015:MilkenGlobalConference,LosAngelesPanelist/Speaker:BridgingtheGraduationGapforLow-IncomeStudentsModerator:GoldieBlumenstyk,SeniorWriter,ChronicleofHigherEducation;Author,"AmericanHigherEducationinCrisis?WhatEveryoneNeedstoKnow”

SpeakersJohnBaker,CEO,D2LSethBernstein,President,PegasusCapitalAdvisors


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NicholasDirks,Chancellor,UniversityofCalifornia,BerkeleyJamillahMoore,Chancellor,VenturaCountyCommunityCollegeDistrict

GeorgeWeiss,FounderandChairman,SayYestoEducation;CEO,WeissMulti-StrategyAdvisersLLC

March26,2015:America'sTwoBestIdeas-PublicEducationandPublicLand,ConversationswithPresidentNapolitano&USSecretaryoftheInteriorSallyJewell;moderator,MichaelKrasny

March9,2015:KQEDForuminterviewhttps://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/10/uc-berkeley-chancellor-nicholas-dirks-discusses-tuition-out-of-state-students/

February24,2105:NationalConferenceonCampusSexualAssaultandViolence,hostedbyUCBerkeleyOpeningRemarksandPresident’sPanel:

ParticipantsJosephCastro,President–CaliforniaStateUniversity,FresnoNicholasB.Dirks,Chancellor–UniversityofCalifornia,BerkeleyMichaelV.Drake,President–OhioStateUniversityCarolFolt,Chancellor–UniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHill

BeverlyDanielTatum,President–SpelmanCollege

February4,2015:AmericanAssociationfortheAdvancementofScienceCaliforniameetingseries,SanJoseOpeningremarks:“RestoringtheFoundation:TheVitalRoleofResearchinPreservingtheAmericanDream.”

January2015WorldEconomicForum,Davos• InterviewonHuffingtonPostLive,http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/21/nicholas-dirks-

davos_n_6505608.html• IntroductionofBerkeleyIdeasLab:Humanvs.artificialintelligence• GlobalUniversityLeadersforumdiscussionwithEricSchmidt,Googleonindustrypartnershipswith

universities.

November23,2014:SocietyforArt&CulturalHeritageofIndia,andtheAsianArtMuseum,SanFrancisco.Host:specialanniversaryevent,'GandhiandthePoliticalEnlightenment';keynotespeaker,Prof.AkeelBilgrami.

November21,2014:Chancellor’sExecutiveRoundtable(innovationsectorleaders);GuestSpeaker.Moderator,FacebookCIOTimCampos

October2014:TheWorldAffairsCouncil,SanFranciscoDialog:“OnlineEducation:PreparingtheLaborForce”WithUdacityCEOSebastianThrun.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPBd3hZVgf8

July1-3,2014:AspenInstitute,AspenIdeasFestival• InterviewwithTheAtlantic• “WhoisCollegeforAnymore:TheFutureofPublicEducation”,panelist

(NicholasDirks,CarrieBesnetteHauser,ScottKinney,ScottRalls,JimShelton;ModeratorJamesCalaway)

• “Imagining2024:WilltheHumanitiesbeExtinct?”(NicholasDirks,DrewFaust,ChristinaPaxson)

• PanelDiscussionoffilm,“IvoryTower”

March25,2014:InsideHigherEd-GlobalizationofHigherEducationConference;panelist• PanelModerator&Participants• ScottJaschik,moderator(co-founderandeditor-InsideHigherEd)• PresidentDavidLeebron,RiceUniversity• ChancellorNicholasDirks,Berkeley• DeanJamesRyan,HarvardGraduateSchoolofEducation


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March12,2014:CommonwealthClub,SFKeynoteAddress:TheUtopianPastandFutureofthePublicUniversity,http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/video/uc-berkeley-chancellor-nicholas-dirks

February4,2014:AssociationofAmericanUniversities,Washington,DCPanelist/Speaker:“AcademicFreedomintheChineseContext.”

January22-25,2014WorldEconomicForum,Davos• InterviewwithHuffingtonPost• FoxNewsinterview• Panelist:TheNewAmericanDream.HowisthechangingsocialfabricoftheUnitedStatesquestioning

theAmericanspirit?

January16,2014:WhiteHousemeetingdedicatedtolaunchingaplanofactionforincreasingcollegeopportunityforlow-incomeanddisadvantagedstudents.ThedayincludedremarksfromthePresident,FirstLady,SecretaryDuncan,panels,andalunchtimebreakoutdiscussion.

January2014:Interview:“MeettheChancellor,AnopenQ&AwithNicholasDirks,”Berkeley.

December3,2013:TheR.LowryDobsonMemorialLecturepresentedbytheCollegeofLettersandScience,BerkeleyLecture:“ScholarsandSpies:WorldlyKnowledgeandthePredicamentoftheUniversity”

December2013:Interview,“InFocus:ChancellorNicholasDirks.”CalTVBerkeley

November2013:Speech:“Inauguration:TheTenthChancelloroftheUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley.”

September2013:Lecture,“SouthAsianStudies:PastsandFutures.”HarvardUniversity.

August15,2013:BerkeleysideInterview

November2012:Interview,“InConversation:Chancellor-designateNicholasDirks.”UCBerkeleyPublicAffairs

ARTICLESABOUTNICHOLASB.DIRKS

Hoffman,Reid.“NickDirks'EffortsToBringChangetoUCBerkeley.”LinkedIn,January2017.https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nick-dirks-efforts-bring-change-uc-berkeley-reid-hoffman

Kirby,WilliamandEby,Jocelyn,“PublicMission,PrivateFunding:TheUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley”HarvardBusinessSchoolCaseStudy,December2016

Upadhyayula,Pavan,“Dirks’tenuredeservesbalancedjudgment”TheDailyCalifornian,September2017.http://www.dailycal.org/2016/09/09/dirks-tenure-deserves-balanced-judgement/

LATimesEditorialBoard,“What’snextforBerkeleyandUC?”TheLosAngelesTimeshttp://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-future-uc-20160223-story.html

Hamlin,Jesse.“NicholasDirks:Intimatechatsinthepublicspotlight.”SFGate.HearstCommunications,Inc.September2014.http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Nicholas-Dirks-Intimate-chats-in-the-public-5762857.php

Friedersdorf,Conor.“UCBerkeley'sChancellorontheCareerPathsofEliteCollegians.”TheAtlantic.July2014.https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/07/uc-berkeleys-chancellor-on-the-career-path-of-elite-collegians/373820/

Yoon,Jennie."DirksOutlinesGoalsforFirstYearatHelm."TheDailyCalifornian.TheIndependentBerkeleyStudentPublishingCo.,Inc.,August2013.

Asimov,Nanette."UCBerkeleyEmergesfromRecessionwithConfidence."SFGate.HearstCommunications,Inc.,August2013.


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Murphy,Katy."UCBerkeley'sNewChancellorNicholasDirksPreparesforHisFirstSemesteratCal."InsideBayArea.com.August2013.

Shuttleworth,Jeff."NewUCBerkeleyChancellorSaysSchoolNeedsToRelyLessOnState,MoreOnDonors."TheSanFranciscoAppeal.AppealMedia,LLC,August2013.

Asimov,Nanette."NewUCChancellorNicholasDirksBringsPatientEartoJob."SanFranciscoChronicle,TheHearstCorporation,July2013.

Elder,Sean."AdministeringChange."CaliforniaMagazine,Vol.124,No.2June2013:26-31.

Butchy,Laura.“MasterMultitasker."ColumbiaCollegeTodayMay/June2006:14-17.

ARTICLES–ACADEMICANDSCHOLARLYForewardin,FringesofEmpire:Peoples,PlacesandSpacesinColonialIndia,Agha,SameetahandKolsky,Elizabeth.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,2009.

“AutobiographyofanArchive,”inTheMadrasSchoolofOrientalism.Ed.Trautmann,ThomasR.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,2009.

“ImperialSovereignty,”inImperialFormations.Eds.McGranahan,Carole;Perdue,Peter,andStoler,AnnLaura.SantaFe,N.M.:SchoolforAdvancedResearchPress,2007.

“ColonialandPostcolonialHistories:ComparativeReflectionsontheLegaciesofEmpire,”inBuildingInclusiveSocieties,GlobalBackgroundPaperfortheHumanDevelopmentReport.NewYork:UnitedNationsPublications,2004.

“ColonialAmnesiaandtheOldRegimeinthePhotographsofLinnaeusTripe,”inTracesofIndia:Photography,Architecture,andthePoliticsofRepresentation,1850–1900.Ed.Pelizzari,MariaAntonella.Montreal:CanadianCentreforArchitecture;NewHaven:YaleCenterforBritishArt,2003.

“AnnalsoftheArchive:EthnographicNotesontheSourcesofHistory,”inFromtheMargins:HistoricalAnthropologyanditsFutures.Ed.Axel,Brian.Durham:DukeUniversityPress,2002.

“TheEthnographicState,”inTheStateinIndia:PastandPresent.Eds.Kimura,Masaaki,andTanabe,Akio.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,2006.

“DiscriminatingDifference:ThePostcolonialPoliticsofCasteinIndia,”inTheConstructionofMinorities:CasesforComparisonAcrossTimeandAroundtheWorld.Eds.Burguiere,Andre,andGrew,Raymond.AnnArbor:UniversityofMichiganPress,2001.

“PostcolonialismanditsDiscontents:History,Anthropology,andPostcolonialCritique,”inSchoolsofThought:Twenty-fiveYearsofInterpretiveSocialScience.Eds.Scott,Joan,andKeates,Debra.Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,2001.

“SouthAsianStudies:FuturesPast,”inThePoliticsofKnowledge:AreaStudiesandtheDisciplines.Ed.Szanton,David.BerkeleyandLosAngeles:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,2004.

“TheHomeandtheNation:ConsumingCultureandPoliticsinRoja,”inPleasureandtheNation:TheHistory,PoliticsandConsumptionofPublicCultureinIndia.Eds.Pinney,Christopher,andDwyer,Rachel.NewDelhi:OxfordUniversityPress,2001.

“TheSovereigntyofHistory:CultureandModernityintheCinemaofSatyajitRay,”inQuestionsofModernity.Ed.Mitchell,Timothy.Minneapolis:UniversityofMinnesotaPress,2000.

“TheCrimesofColonialism:AnthropologyandtheTextualizationofIndia,”inColonialSubjects:EssaysonthePracticalHistoryofAnthropology.Eds.Pels,Peter,andSalemink,Oscar.AnnArbor:UniversityofMichiganPress,1999.”

“InNearRuins,”introductoryessayin,InNearRuins:CulturalTheoryattheEndoftheCentury,Minneapolis:


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UniversityofMinnesotaPress,1998.

“ThePolicingofTradition:ColonialismandAnthropologyinSouthernIndia,”inComparativeStudiesinSocietyandHistory.NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,1997.

“Différenceetdiscrimination.Lapolitiquedescastesdansl’Indepost-coloniale,”inAnnalesHSS.Vol.52,no.3.1997.

“TheConversionofCaste,”inConversiontoModernity(ZonesofReligion).Ed.vanderVeer,Peter.NewYork:RoutledgePress,1995.

“ReadingCulture:AnthropologyandtheTextualizationofIndia,”inCulture/Contexture:ExplorationsinAnthropologyandLiteraryStudies.Eds.Daniel,E.Valentine,andPeck,Jeffrey.Berkeley:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1996.

“RecastingTamilIndia:ThePoliticsofCasteandRaceinContemporarySouthernIndia,”inCasteToday.Ed.Fuller,C.J.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,1995.

“TheHomeandtheWorld:TheInventionofModernityinColonialIndia,”inVisualAnthropologyReview,vol.9,no.2,fall1993,pp.19–31,revisedversioninRevisioningHistory:Filmandtheconstructionofanewpast.Ed.Rosenstone,Robert.Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,1995.

“GloriousSpoliations:PicturesqueBeauty,ColonialKnowledge,andColinMackenzie’sSurveyofIndia,”inPerceptionsofIndia’sVisualPasts.Eds.Asher,CatherineEllaBlanshard,andMetcalf,ThomasR.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,1995.

IntroductiontoColonialismandItsFormsofKnowledge,Cohn,BernardS.Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,1995.

“ColonialHistoriesandNativeInformants:BiographyofanArchive,”inOrientalismandthePostcolonialPredicament:PerspectivesonSouthAsia.Eds.Breckenridge,CarolandvanderVeer,Peter.Philadelphia:UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress,1993.

“IsViceVersa?HistoricalAnthropologiesandAnthropologicalHistories,”inTheHistoricTurnintheHumanSciences.Ed.McDonald,Terrence.AnnArbor:TheUniversityofMichiganPress,1993.

“CastesofMind,”inRepresentations.no.37,winter1992.

“FromLittleKingtoLandlord:Property,Law,andtheGiftUndertheMadrasPermanentSettlement,”inComparativeStudiesinSocietyandHistory.vol.28,no.2,April1986.Republishedinrevisedform,“FromLittleKingtoLandlord:ColonialDiscourseandColonialRule,”inColonialismandCulture.Ed.Dirks,Nicholas.AnnArbor:UniversityofMichiganPress,1992.

“RitualandResistance:SubversionAsaSocialFact,”inContestingPower:ResistanceandEverydaySocialRelationsinSouthAsia.Eds.Haynes,DouglasandPrakash,Gyan.Delhi:OxfordUniversityPress,1991;Berkeley:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1992.

“HistoryasaSignoftheModern,”inPublicCulture.vol.2,no.2,spring1990.

“TheInventionofCaste:CivilSocietyinColonialIndia,”inSocialAnalysis,vol.29,Autumn1989.

“TheOriginalCaste:Power,History,andHierarchyinSouthAsia,”inContributionstoIndianSociology,vol.23,no.1,Jan.–June1989.AlsoinIndiaThroughHinduCategories.Ed.Marriott,McKim.NewDelhi:SagePublications,1990.

“BeyondtheFringe:TheNationState,Colonialism,andtheTechnologiesofPower,”inJournalofHistoricalSociology(withCohn,BernardS.).vol.I,no.2,1988.

“TerminologyandTaxonomy;DiscourseandDomination:FromOldRegimetoColonialRegimeinSouthIndia,”inStudiesofSouthIndia:AnAnthologyofCriticalEssaysonRecentScholarship.Eds.Frykenberg,R.E.,andKolenda,P.Madras:NewEraPublications,1986.

“ThePastsofaPalaiyakarar:TheEthnohistoryofaSouthIndianLittleKing,”inJournalofAsianStudies,vol.


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41,no.4,August1982,pp.655–683.ReprintedinTemples,Kings,andPeasants:PerceptionsofSouthIndia’sPast.Ed.Spencer,GeorgeW.Madras:NewEraPublications,1986.

“IndianSocio-EconomicDevelopment,”inPacificAffairs,vol.53,no.4,winter1980–1981.

“TheStructureandMeaningofPoliticalRelationsinaSouthIndianLittleKingdom,”inContributionstoIndianSociology,vol.13,no.2,July–December1979.

“PoliticalAuthorityandStructuralChangeinEarlySouthIndianHistory,”inTheIndianEconomicandSocialHistoryReview,vol.13,no.2,April–June1979.

MiscellaneousReviewsonBooksandFilmsinTheAmericanHistoricalReview,TheNewYorkTimes,TheJournalofAsianStudies,etc.

INVITEDSCHOLARLYPAPERSANDCONFERENCEPARTICIPATION(BEFOREBERKELEY)

“ScholarsandSpies:WorldlyKnowledgeandthePredicamentoftheUniversity,”UniversityLecture,ColumbiaUniversity,February2012.

“TheRiseofSouthAsianAreaStudies:FromtheOSStotheChallengesoftheTwenty-firstCentury,”lecture,UniversityofVirginia,November2011,andDistinguishedLectureattheMumbaiGlobalCenter,Mumbai,India,March2012.

“ScholarsandSpies:TheEmergenceofAreaStudiesintheUnitedStates,”lecture,SciencesPo,Paris,November2010;StanfordUniversity,January2011;FreeUniversity,Berlin,May2011,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,April2013.

“TheLiberalArtsandGlobalHigherEducation,”plenaryspeech,ConferenceonGlobalEducation,Beijing,China,October2010.

“PostcolonialStudiesandtheQuestionofSovereignty,”lecture,TsinghuaUniversity,Beijing,China,June2010.

“TheBritishEmpireinIndia:BeginningsandEndings,”lecture,UniversityofIllinois,March2010.

“GhuryeandtheAnthropologyofCaste,”inauguralG.S.GhuryeLecture,MumbaiUniversity,January2010.

“TheHistoricalPoliticsofCasteStudies,”lectureandseminar,CentreforPoliticalStudies,JawaharlalNehruUniversity,Delhi,India,January2010.

“CasteafterAmbedkar,”keynotelecture,ColumbiaUniversityconferenceonthelifeandworkofB.R.Ambedkar,April2009.

“ScholarsandSpies,”lecture,Mellonconferenceondisciplinaryinnovation,CambridgeUniversity,April2009.

“TheModernUniversityandtheChallengeofGlobalEducation,”keynotelecture,ReinventionsConference,Washington,D.C.,November2008.

“EmpireonTrial,”keynotelecture,BritishStudiesGroup,RutgersUniversity,October2008.

“FranzBoas,”keynotelecture,AmericanPhilosophicalSocietyannualmeeting,Philadelphia,May2008.

“OnthePassionofEdmundBurke,”lecture,UniversityofMichigan,November2008.

“TheNewIndia:AColonialHistoryofthePresent,”keynotelecture,IndiaShiningconferenceinCopenhagen,October2007.

“AutobiographyofanArchive:TheCollectionofColinMackenzie,”lecture,conference,UniversityofMichigan,May2007.

“SovereigntyandNationalism:TheNationoutofEmpire,”keynoteaddress,InternationalConference,KeioUniversity,Kyoto,Japan,March2007.


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“OnImperialSovereignty,”lecture,PostcolonialismSeminar,NewYorkUniversity,November2006.

“CultureandEmpire,”lecture,TataInstituteforFundamentalResearch,Mumbai,India,December2005.

“EmpireandSovereignty,”lecture,ConferenceonUtopiasandDystopias,UtrechtUniversity,Utrecht,Netherlands,October2005.

“BurkeandSovereignty,”lecture,HeymanCenterfortheHumanities,ColumbiaUniversity,November2004.

“ImperialSovereignty,”lecture,GraduateFacultySeminar,theNewSchoolUniversity,September2004.

“TheEthnographicState:ReflectionsonCastesofMind,”keynotelecture,HeidelbergUniversity,July2004.

Conferenceorganizer,EmpireandTerror,InstituteforSouthernAsianStudies,ColumbiaUniversity,May2004.

Lecture,SpecialRoundtableonCasteandDemocracy,UniversityofDelhi,January2004.

Conferencemember,SixthSubalternStudiesConference,Delhi,India,January2004.

“SovereigntyandEmpire,”paperandconferencemember,ResearchSeminaronEmpire,SchoolofAmericanResearch,SantaFe,NewMexico,November2003.

“TheTrialofWarrenHastings,”paperandconferencemember,ScotlandandEmpire,UniversityofAberdeen,Scotland,September2003.

“CorruptionandEmpire,”lecture,InternationalConferenceonEmpires:PastandPresent,UniversityofThessaloniki,Volos,Greece,June2003.

Respondent,SpecialPanelontheScholarlyImpactandSignificanceof“CastesofMind,”AssociationforAsianStudiesannualmeeting,March2003.

“TheColonialContextofMidnight’sChildren,”lecture,ColumbiaUniversityHumanitiesFestival,March2003.

“TheScandalofEmpire,”lecture,DepartmentofAnthropology,HarvardUniversity,February2003.

“TheEthnographicState:History,Anthropology,andEmpire,”SocietyforSouthAsianStudiesannuallecture,theBritishAcademy,November2002.

“TheScandalofHistory,”paper,conference,CliointheColonies,UniversityofMichigan,October2002.

“CasteandColonialism,”lecture,InstituteforSouthernAsianStudies,Columbia,October2002.

“TheEthnographicState,”keynotelecture,conference,KnowledgeanditsObjectsinSouthAsia,ColumbiaUniversity,November2001.

“CasteandIdentityinIndiaToday,”plenaryaddress,SouthAsiaannualmeetings,UniversityofWisconsin,Madison,November2001.

“HistoricalAnthropology,”and“TheEthnographicState,”lectures,EuropeanUniversity,Florence,Italy,April2001.

“TheEthnographicState:IndirectRuleandColonialDifference,”keynotelecture,ConferenceonIndirectRuleinAfricaandIndia,YaleUniversity,March2001.

“AnnalsoftheArchive,”paper,HistoryandtheArchive,AmericanHistoricalAssociationannualmeeting,January2001.

“DreamsChairsDream,”roundtable,FutureofAnthropology,PanelofAnthropologyChairs,AmericanAnthropologicalAssociationannualmeeting,November2000.

“TributetoBernardS.Cohn,”paperandco-organizerofpaneltocommemoratetheworkofBernardS.Cohn,AmericanAnthropologicalAssociationannualmeeting,November2000.

“Violence,Religion,Critique:TheExamplesofB.R.Ambedkar,andE.V.RamaswamyNaicker,”presentedatConferenceonReligionandViolence,UniversityofAmsterdam,May2000.


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“GandhiagainsttheGrain,”presentedatWellesleyCollege,February2000.

“SlouchingTowardsAmbivalence:History,Anthropology,andPostcolonialCritique,”plenaryaddress,ConferenceintheHumanSciences,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,April2000;speciallecture,UniversityofRochester,March2000;UniversityofIowa,April2000.

“TheEthnographicState,”presentedatInternationalConferenceontheStateinIndia,KyotoUniversity,December1999(publishedinvolumeofconferenceproceedings).

“Ambedkar,Nationalism,andtheProblemofGovernance,”presentedtoconferenceonGovernanceinSouthAsia,sponsoredbytheSocialScienceResearchCouncil,Muree,Pakistan,August1999.

“HistoricalAnthropologyandtheArchive,”presentedtoDepartmentofAnthropology,NewYorkUniversity,October1998;foraspecialseminaronhistoricalanthropologyatEmoryUniversity,February1999.

“HomoPoliticus:ThePoliticsofCaste,”presentedtotheDepartmentofAnthropology,CityUniversityofNewYork,November1998;theSocialScienceSeminar,InstituteforAdvancedStudy,Princeton,February1999.

“CastingtheMinority,”presentedtoConferenceonMinorities,DepartmentofHistory,PrincetonUniversity,April1999.

“AnthropologyandtheArchive,”presentedtoDepartmentofAnthropology,PrincetonUniversity,February1998.

“TheCrisisinCulturalTheoryandtheEchoofPostcoloniality,”paper,RobertPennWarrenCenterfortheHumanities,VanderbiltUniversity,Nashville,November1997.

“SubalternStudiesandAfricanHistory,”discussantatconference,ProblematizingHistoryandAgency,UniversityofCapetown,SouthAfrica,October1997.

“AnnalsoftheArchive:EthnographicNotesontheSourcesofHistory,”presentedatconference,HistoryAfterBraudel,Bellagio,Italy,June1997;SouthAsiaLectureSeries,ColumbiaUniversity,September1997.

“HomoHierarchicus:ColonialHistoriesandPostcolonialPolitics,”lecture,HistoryDepartment,PrincetonUniversity,February1996.

InvitedpapersattheCenterforStudiesinSocialScience,Calcutta,January1996;FilmStudiesDepartment,JadavpurUniversity,January1996.

InvitedlectureinHistoricalAnthropology,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz,February1996.

Organizer,discussant,SSRCconference,ViolenceAgainstWomeninSouthAsia,Colombo,SriLanka,March1996.

“G.SGhuryeandthePoliticsofCaste,”lecture,conference,Ethnicity,National-Building,andPluralism,UniversityofBombay,December1995.

“FilmandPoliticsinIndia,”paper,conference,PopularCultureandCulturalStudies,InternationalInstituteofAsianStudies,Leiden,Holland,November1995.

“ThePoliticsofCaste,”paper,conference,PoliticalViolenceinIndia,Amherst,Massachusetts,September1995.

“DiscriminatingDifference,”paper,conference,Minorities,MaisondeSciencedel’Homme,Paris,June1995.

“TheHomeandtheNation,”paper,conference,perspectivesinIndianpopularculture,SchoolforOrientalandAfricanStudies,theUniversityofLondon,June1995.

“PostcolonialCriticismandthePoliticsofLocation,”paper,InternationalConferenceonCulturalAnalysis,Amsterdam,July1995.

“Thefutureofareastudies,”discussant,DukeUniversity,March1995.

“TheHomeandtheNation,”and“RealtoReel,”papers,UniversityofCalifornia,May1995.


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“TheMusicRoom,”paper,conference,CinemaofSatyajitRay,UniversityofCaliforniaatSantaCruz,May1994.

“OnEthnographicTranslation,”lecture,AmericanAnthropologicalAssociationannualmeeting,Atlanta,December1994.

“TheSovereigntyofHistory:MusicRoomsandChessPlayers,”paper,conference,CultureofConsumption,InternationalInstituteofAsianStudies,Amsterdam,December1994.

Invitedlecture,conference,Conversion,UniversityofAmsterdam,June1994.

Invitedlecture,conference,UnwritingEmpire,LeidenUniversity,April1994.

Invitedlecture,symposium,Orientalism,UniversityofAmsterdam,April1994.

“ReeltoReal:TheCinematicsofTamilPoliticalCulture,”lecture,M.I.T.,March1993;UniversityofPennsylvania,March1994;Columbia,April1994;Minnesota,April1994.

InvitedParticipant,conference,BeyondOrientalism,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz,November1993.

“TheInventionofModernityinIndia,”lecture,TuftsUniversity,March1993.

“ColonialAnthropologyandPopularReligioninIndia,”CornellUniversity,April1993.

Invitedparticipant,SSRCconference,NationalismandModernityinIndia,Goa,India,May1993.

Invitedparticipant,SSRCconference,ComparativeModernitiesintheMiddleEastandSouthAsia,Cairo,May1993.

Invitedparticipant,conference,CasteToday,LondonSchoolofEconomics,SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies,UniversityofLondon,July1993.

“ColonialAnthropologyandIndia,”lecture,HeidelbergUniversity,January1992;EdinburghUniversity,April1992;JohnsHopkinsUniversityNovember1992;UniversityofWashington,January1993.

“BeyondtheFringe(II):Hyper-mythandtheCinematicsofTamilPoliticalCulture,”lecture,AmericanAnthropologicalAssociationannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,November1992.

“SubalternIntellectualsandPostcolonialPolitics:India,”paper,AmericanAnthropologicalAssociationannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,November1992.

“HomeandtheWorld:TheInventionofModernityinColonialIndia,”lecture,UniversityofPennsylvania,November1992;UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,December1992.

“TheBiographyofanArchive”presentedatconference,Myth,MemoryandHistory,UniversityofVirginia,April1992.

PapersdeliveredattheEthnologySeminar,HeidelbergUniversity,January1992;theLondonSchoolofEconomics,April1992;theUniversityofEdinburgh,April1992.

“Myth,Memory,andHistoryinIndia,”paper,UniversityofVirginia,Charlottesville,April1992.

“CasteandRaceinTamilIndia,”presentedattheEthnohistoryWorkshop,UniversityofPennsylvania,November1991.

“SanskritizationandthetransformationofHinduism,”presentedattheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociationannualmeeting,Chicago,November1991.

“ColonialismandEuropeanIdentity,”paneldiscussant,AmericanAnthropologicalAssociationannualmeeting,Chicago,November1991.

“ThePolicingofTradition,”lectureandseminar,AgrarianStudiesProgram,YaleUniversity,December1991.

“TheEmergenceofTamilIdentities,”presentedtotheSouthAsianSeminar,HarvardUniversity,February1991.


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“CommentsonHistory,Experience,andAnthropology:ApaperbyJoanScott,”presentedattheAnnualMeetingoftheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation,November1990.

“CastesofMind,”presentedattheInstituteforAdvancedStudyandHarvardUniversity,February1990;UniversityofToronto,October1990;AmericanAnthropologicalAssociationannualmeeting,November1990.

“ThePolicingofTradition:AnthropologyandthePoliceinColonialIndia,”presentedtotheEthnohistoryWorkshop,UniversityofPennsylvania,November1989;SubalternStudiesConference,Calcutta,December1989;DepartmentofAnthropology,UniversityofChicago,October1990.

“HistoryasaSignoftheModern,”presentedattheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociationannualmeeting,Washington,November1989.

“GloriousSpoliations:ColinMacKenzieandtheColonialSurveyingofIndia,”presentedataconferenceontheusesoftheIndianPast,Banaras,India,December1989.

Invitedlecture,FormsofResistanceinSouthAsia,UniversityofTexas,Austin,January1989.

“DoesSocialTheoryNeedHistory,”presentedattheSocialScienceHistoryAssociation,Chicago,November1988.

“RitualsofColonialismandtheColonialismofRitual,”presentedattheAssociationforAsianStudiesannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,March1988.

InvitedlecturesonCasteinIndiaattheUniversityofVirginia,Charlottesville,December1987;UniversityofWashington,Seattle,March1988;UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,April1988;UniversityofPennsylvania,October1988.

“RitualandResistanceinSouthIndianVillageRituals,”attheAmericanHistoricalAssociationannualmeeting,December1987.

“FormsofInversioninModernSouthAsia,”paneldiscussant,AnnualMeetingsonSouthAsia,UniversityofWisconsin,Madison,November1987.

“EthnographyintheColonialMirror,”lecture,AmericanAnthropologicalAssociationannualmeeting,Chicago,November1987.

“BeyondtheFringe”and“CastesofMind,”presentedattheMellonWorkshopsonCulturalColonialism,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology,April–May,1987.

CommentsontheSubalternProject,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz,April1987.

“HistoryandAnthropology,”presentedatL’Écoledeshautesétudesensciencessociales,Paris,November1986.

“EthnohistoryandtheIndianEighteenthCentury,”presentedtoaspecialsymposiumattheSchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies,UniversityofLondon,June1986.

“EthnohistoryofanIndianKingdom,”presentedatCambridgeUniversity,March1986;UniversityofMichigan,March1986;LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience,June1986;ÉcoledesHautesÉtudesenSciencesSociales,Paris,November1986;OxfordUniversity,December1986;UniversityCollege,London,December1986.

“GiftsandKingship,”presentedattheAssociationforAsianStudiesannualmeeting,March1986.

“MarriageandRankinTamilKinship,”presentedtotheAnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,UniversityofWisconsin,November1985.

DiscussantonthepositionofcultureinIndianhistoriography,workshopontheIndianEighteenthCentury,WarwickUniversity,Coventry,August1985.

“CasteandKingship:Power,HierarchyandSocialRelationsinaTamilLittleKingdom,”presentedattheAssociationforAsianStudiesannualmeeting,March1985.


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“CommodityFetishismandPoliticalForm:MoneyandtheOldRegimeinSouthIndia,”presentedtoAnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,UniversityofWisconsin,November1984.

“Power,Territory,andHierarchy:TheKallarsofPudukkottai,”presentedtoWorkshoponEthnosociologyofSouthAsiaatMadison,Wisconsin,November1984.

“OrthodoxyintheChineseTraditionandinChinaToday,”discussant,SouthernCaliforniaColloquiuminChineseStudies,AnthropologicalPerspectivesinChineseHistory,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology,March1984.

“RitualKingshipandCivilization:ThePoliticalDynamicofCulturalChangeinMedievalSouthIndianHistory,”presentedtoconference,TheHistoricalExperienceofChangeandPatternsofReconstructioninSelectedAxialAgeCivilizations,TheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem,December1983–January1984.

“LineagesandSubcastesinaTamilLittleKingdom:EthnosociologyinaHistoricalDimension,”presentedtoAmericanAnthropologicalAssociationannualmeeting,Chicago,November1983.

“GiftsandKingship,”presentedtothe12thAnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison,November1983.

“CultureandComparisoninSouthAsianHistory,”presentedtoWorkshoponModernSouthAsianHistory,UniversityofCaliforniaatSantaCruz,June1983.

“TheStructureofSocialandPoliticalRelationsinaSouthIndianLittleKingdom,”presentedtoSouthAsianAnthropologist’sgroupmeeting,LondonSchoolofEconomics,May1983.

“TheOriginsofLocalAdministrationinAncientChina,”discussant,workshoponthepoliticaleconomyofpre-industrialsociety,Caltech-WeingartConference,May1983.

“LandasPoliticalRelationintheLittleKingdomsofSouthernIndia,”presentedtoAnnualMeetingoftheAssociationofAsianStudies,Toronto,March1981.

“TheMoralEconomyofaLittleKingdominSouthIndia,”presentedtoSouthAsiaColloquiumonRegionalStatesinSouthAsia,UniversityofWashington,Seattle,February1981.

“TopicsinIndianSocialandEconomicHistory,”paper,WesternConferenceoftheAssociationforAsianStudies,SaltLakeCity,autumn1980.

“PeasantRebellioninSouthIndia,”presentedtoWesternConferenceoftheAssociationforAsianStudies,SaltLakeCity,autumn1980.

“MythandHistoryinSouthernIndia,”presentedtoAnthropologyColloquium,StateUniversityofNewYork,Stonybrook,May1980.

“IndianSocio-EconomicDevelopment:TheoreticalSurprisesandPracticalLessons,”paper,AssociationforAsianStudiesannualmeeting,WashingtonD.C.,March1980.

“BecomingaKinginSouthIndia,”presentedtospecialseminaronKingshipinAsiaattheUniversityofChicago,January1980.

“StateCeremonialinLateImperialChina,”paper,AssociationforAsianStudiesannualmeeting,LosAngeles,April1979.

“TheRitualStateinMedievalSouthIndia,”Anthropology,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,February1979.

SCHOLASTICAWARDS,HONORSANDFELLOWSHIPS

HonoraryPh.D.,SRMUniversity,2017

HonoraryPh.D.,TsinghuaUniversity,2014

HonoraryProfessorship,PekingUniversity,2014


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Fellow,AmericanAcademyofArtsandSciences,2014.

SeniorFellow,CouncilonForeignRelations,2005.

OldDominionFellow,TheHumanitiesCouncilandtheDepartmentofHistory,PrincetonUniversity,Spring2005.

LionelTrillingAwardforBestBook(CastesofMind),2002.

FranzBoasProfessor,ColumbiaUniversity,2000–2012.

MellonFoundation,SawyerSeminarConvener,1999–2002(Columbia).

SeniorFellow,MichiganSocietyofFellows,1995–1997.

InvitedMember,CenterforAdvancedStudyintheBehavioralSciences,Stanford,CA.

MellonFoundation,SawyerSeminarCo-Convener,1996–1997(Michigan).

JuliaLockwoodCertainAward,UniversityofMichigan,1995.

UniversityofMichiganFacultyRecognitionAward,1994.

MISgrantfortravelresearchinIndia,summer1993.

AIISshorttermgrant,travelandresearchinIndia,summer1991.

GuggenheimFellow,1989–1991.

JohnD.andCatherineT.MacArthurResidentialFellowattheInstituteforAdvancedStudy,Princeton,1989–

1990.

AIISshorttermgrant,travelandresearchinIndia,summer1989.

NEHSummerStipend,1985.

SocialScienceResearchCouncilPostdoctoralGrant,1985–1986.

AmericanInstituteofIndianStudies,SmithsonianInstitution,SeniorResearchFellow,1980.

Fulbright-HaysDoctoralDissertationResearchAbroadFellow,1975–1976.

DoctoralDissertationGrantfromSocialScienceResearchCouncilandtheAmericanCouncilofLearned

Societies,1975–1977.

AmericanInstituteofIndianStudiesSummerLanguageFellow,1974.

KentFellow,TheDanforthFoundation,1974–1978.

NDEATitleVI,1972–1973,1973–1974.

HonorsinSocialStudies,WesleyanUniversity.

CumLaudeinGeneralScholarship,WesleyanUniversity.

OTHERPROFESSIONALACTIVITIES

VisitingCommittee,AsianStudies,HarvardUniversity,spring2004.

VisitingCommittee,DepartmentofAnthropology,HarvardUniversity,spring2004.

VisitingCommittee,DepartmentofHistory,PrincetonUniversity,2003–2008.

Co-PrincipalInvestigator,NationalScienceFoundationGrantfornewDigitalTechnologiesandLearningAnthropology,developedwiththeJointInformationSystemsCommitteeandtheDepartmentofAnthropologyattheLondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience.


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MemberofReviewCommittee,DepartmentofAnthropology,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,November2002.

SpecialConsultantfortheDevelopmentofSouthAsianStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles,May2001.

MemberofReviewCommittee,PrograminAsianStudies,StateUniversityofNewYorkatStonyBrook,AprilandSeptember1998.

MemberofReviewCommittee,DepartmentofHistory,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles,February1998.

Member,SouthAsiaRegionalAreaCommittee,SocialScienceResearchCouncil,1997–1999.

Editor-in-Chief,ComparativeStudiesinSocietyandHistory,July1996–1997.

Treasurer,SocietyforCulturalAnthropology,1995–1996.

SeniorFellow,MichiganSocietyofFellows,1995–1999.

HonoraryAssociate,CenterfortheComparativeStudyofReligionandSociety,UniversityofAmsterdam,1994–2013.

OrganizerofConferenceonCulture,sponsoredbyPrograminComparativeStudyofSocialTransformations,UniversityofMichigan,October1993.

Coremember,MidwestConsortium,CenterforPsychosocialStudiesChicago.

Member,JointCommitteeonSouthAsia,SocialScienceResearchCouncil,1993–1996.

Co-organizerofConferenceon“NationalizingthePast,”sponsoredbytheSocialScienceResearchCouncil,Goa,India,May1993.

Co-editorofSeriesonCulture/Power/HistorywithPrincetonUniversityPress,1989–2000.

ManuscriptReviewsforUniversityofPennsylvaniaPress,UniversityofMinnesotaPress,CornellUniversityPress,PrincetonUniversityPress,CambridgeUniversityPress,UniversityofChicagoPress,UniversityofCaliforniaPress,UniversityofMichiganPress,RoutledgeandKeganPaul.

EditorofvolumeandorganizerofconferenceoncolonialismforComparativeStudiesinSocietyandHistory.

OrganizerofMellonWorkshopsoncultureandcolonialism,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology,April–May1987.

Co-organizerofWorkshopontheSocialHistoryandRelationsofMoney,AnnualSouthAsiaMeetings,UniversityofWisconsin,Madison,November1984.

Co-organizerofWorkshoponModernSouthAsianHistory,UniversityofCaliforniaatSantaCruz,June3–5,1983.

OrganizerofPanel:“EthnohistoricalLandscapes:ConceptsofLandinSouthernIndia,”AssociationforAsianStudies,spring1981.

ConsultantonA.I.D.sponsoredproject,coordinatedbyProfessorJeffreyNugent,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,“Old-AgePensionsandHumanFertilityinRuralAreasofDevelopingCountries(Guatemala,India,Malaysia),”spring1980.

EditorialBoard,Interventions,ComparativeStudiesinSocietyandHistory,ContributionstoIndianSociology.

Member,AdvisoryCouncil,SatyajitRayFilmandStudyCollection,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz.

MemberoftheBoardofTrustees,AmericanInstituteofIndianStudies.

BookReviewEditor,ComparativeStudiesinSocietyandHistory.


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FOREIGNLANGUAGES

Tamil,French

UNIVERSITYSERVICE(Michigan)

Director,AdvancedStudyCenteroftheInternationalInstitute,1995–1997.

Director,CenterforSouthandSoutheastAsianStudies,1992–1995.

MemberofExecutiveCommittee,thePrograminFilm&VideoStudies,1994–1996.

Co-FounderandPermanentMemberofDirectorialBoard,TheInterdepartmentalPrograminHistoryandAnthropology,TheUniversityofMichigan.

Member,SearchCommitteeandDirector,FilmandVideoStudiesProgram,1993–1994.

Member,SearchCommitteeforPoliticalScienceDepartment,1992–93.

Member,DivisionalBoardforSocialSciencesandEducation,1991–1993.

Member,ReviewCommitteeforInstitutefortheHumanities,1991.

MemberofExecutiveCommittee,HistoryDepartment,1990–1993.

MemberofLatino-StudiesEvaluationCommittee,1988–1989.

ChairofPublicationsCommittee,CenterforSouthandSoutheastAsianStudies,September1987–1992.

MemberofGraduateAdmissionsandFellowshipCommittee,HistoryDepartment,1987–1988.

MemberofComparativeStudiesCommittee,HistoryDepartment,1987–2012.

MemberofSteeringCommittee,ProgramintheComparativeStudyofSocialTransformations,September1987–2012.

MemberofMediaServicesCommittee,1987–1988.

UniversitySenateMember,1988–1991.

MemberofReviewCommittee,AnthropologyDepartment,1987–1988.

MemberofPromotionCommittee,Anthropology,1988–1989.

MemberofMitchellTeachingAwardCommittee.

ChairofSeniorSearchCommittee,Anthropology,1988–1989.

UNIVERSITYSERVICE(Columbia)

ExecutiveVicePresidentandDeanoftheFaculty,ArtsandSciences,2009–2012.

VicePresidentandDeanoftheFaculty,ArtsandSciences,2004–2012.

Trustee,BoardofTrustees,ColumbiaUniversityPress.2003–2012.

Member,ExecutiveCommitteeforInstituteforSouthernAsianStudies.

Chair,ReviewCommittees,DepartmentofHistory,2003–2004.

Member,ExecutiveCommitteefortheGraduateSchoolofArtsandSciences,2003–2004.

Member,PresidentialTaskForceonGlobalization,2003–2004.

Chair,ColumbiaUniversityPressBoard,2003–2005.

Member,ColumbiaUniversityPressBoard,2001.


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Member,ColumbiaUniversityPressDirectorSearchCommittee,2003.

Traveler’sFellowshipCommittee,GSAS.

Member,PresidentialTaskForceforPlanning,ColumbiaUniversity,2003–2012.

Member,AcademicReviewCommittee,2001–2004.

Chair,HeymanCenterReviewCommittee,2003.

Chair,DepartmentofAnthropology,1996–2003.

Member,Provost’sCommitteeonLibrariesandInformationServices,1997–2003.

Convener,MellonSeminarontheProductionofHistory.1999–00;2002–2003.

AdHocReviews,etc.

AdvisoryCommittee,HistoryDepartment,1998–1999.

PersonnelCommittee,HistoryDepartment,1999–00;2001–2004.

AreaChair,WorldGroup,HistoryDepartment,1999–00;2001–2004.

Member,SearchCommitteeforSeniorEuropeanHistorians,2001–2012.

Member,CurriculumReformCommittee,HistoryDepartment,2002.

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