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    Nicholas B. Dirks (born February 14, 1950) is an American academic and a former Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. Dirks is the author...
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    California Assembly Speaker John Perez. Birgeneau was succeeded by Nicholas Dirks as chancellor of UC Berkeley on June 1, 2013. Incoming chancellor Robert...
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    and the first woman to serve in this role, succeeding Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks. At the start of her first academic year as chancellor, Christ responded...
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  • include: Andy Dirks (born 1986), American Major League Baseball player Alexa Dirks (using stage name Begonia), Canadian musician Gordon Dirks (born 1947)...
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  • this makes the dirk more or less synonymous with the dagger. Dirks were often made from old sword blades. In the nineteenth century dirks started to be...
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    studies, such as the post-colonial histories of India by Gyan Prakash, Nicholas Dirks and Ronald Inden, modern Cambodia by Simon Springer, and the literary...
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  • Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain is a book written by Nicholas Dirks, who was at the time the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Professor...
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  • presented." In anthropology, alterity has been used by scholars such as Nicholas Dirks, Johannes Fabian, Michael Taussig and Pauline Turner Strong to refer...
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  • Ralf Hemmingsen, 2015 - 2016 (University of Copenhagen); Professor Nicholas Dirks, 2017 (University of California, Berkeley); Chancellor Carol Christ...
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    careers, from emerging scientists to seasoned professionals. In 2020, Nicholas Dirks was appointed as the president and CEO of the academy, bringing his...
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    p. 32. Dirks (2001a), pp. 55–58. Gupta (2000), p. 181. Bayly (2001), pp. 19–24. Gupta (2000), pp. 180–183. Dirks (2001a), pp. 56–57. Dirks (2001a),...
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  • 32 For objections to the work by feminists, see: Avari, pp. 142–143. Nicholas Dirks (2001), Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India,...
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  • Social Anthropology of a Civilization (1971). His students, including Nicholas Dirks, Ronald Inden, Vinay Lal, Antoinette Burton, and Ritty Lukose, have...
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  • of the Third World: Perspectives from Indian Historiography", 1990); Nicholas Dirks (Castes of Mind, 2001); and Hamid Dabashi (Iran: A People Interrupted...
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  • documenting defunct institutions as a matter of national heritage. Historian Nicholas Dirks has said that national archives are the "primary site of state monumentality...
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    University of California President Janet Napolitano, UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, and the head of DOE's ASCR program Barb Helland to dedicate a Shyh...
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    celebrates the name day of Saint Nicholas on 6 December. The feast is celebrated annually with the giving of gifts on St. Nicholas' Eve (5 December) in the Netherlands...
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    UC Berkeley's ex-chancellor Nicholas Dirks participates in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge....
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    The role of Risley has sometimes drawn particular attention, with Nicholas Dirks stating, "Risley's anthropology worked not so much to retard nationalism...
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  • Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar (1895–1963) Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) Nicholas Dirks Ranajit Guha (1923–2023) Ayesha Jalal (born 1956) John Keay (born 1941)...
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    October 2, with an unusually large crowd, which included Professor Nicholas Dirks. Massad claimed that after the lecture he was asked a series of rude...
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  • Tenkasi district. The village was once governed by what anthropologist Nicholas Dirks terms "little kings", who were polygars from the Maravar caste. Theirs...
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    Industries, and the New York Academy of Sciences, headed by president Nicholas Dirks. These cash grant awards are given annually to selected faculty and...
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    Development of Tantrism. Tokyo: Institute of Oriental Culture. pp. 268–269. Nicholas Dirks (1976), Political Authority and Structural Change in Early South Indian...
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  • Baker University (1874–79); 1st president, Blue Mont Central College Nicholas Dirks (1972) – 10th chancellor-designate, University of California, Berkeley...
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  • Waters Still Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes (1940) Nicholas Dirks (A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1981) – Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology;...
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    report for RBC in May 2014. Under the LRDP, UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks announced the proposed development would continue as the Berkeley Global...
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  • to the volume are Jane Burbank, Frederick Cooper, Fernando Coronil, Nicholas Dirks, Prasenjit Duara, Adeeb Khalid, Ussama Makdisi, Carole McGranahan, Peter...
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    Chang-Lin Tien (1990) Robert M. Berdahl (1997) Robert J. Birgeneau (2004) Nicholas Dirks (2013) Carol T. Christ (2017) # denotes an interim chancellor...
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  • Cain, former faculty Colin F. Camerer, awarded MacArthur Fellowship Nicholas Dirks, former faculty John Ferejohn, former faculty; Samuel Tilden Professor...
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