Nicholas Dirks
Nick Dirks; photo from the front page of CCT
Nicholas B. Dirks is the Vice President for Arts and Sciences, the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology, and a Professor of History.
Dirks came to Columbia in 1997, and radically altered the approach of the Anthropology Department toward Postcolonialism. In his role as VP for Arts and Sciences, he has gained credit for aggressively recruiting (and in some cases raiding) faculty to dramatically improve targeted departments, most notably Economics.
He is married to professor of Indian history Janaki Bakhle. They like to weekend in the southern Berkshires.
