Nicholas Dirks became the 10th Chancellor of the University of California-Berkeley in June 2013. Before going to Columbia University in 1997 to chair and rebuild the Department of Anthropology in 1997, he taught history and anthropology at the University of Michigan, where he co-founded the interdepartmental Ph.D. program in anthropology and history and directed the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies. He taught Asian history at the California Institute of Technology for nine years before moving to Michigan. He has strong family connections to California as well. His late father served as the vice chancellor and dean for humanities at UC Santa Cruz in the 1970s, and his mother is a longtime resident of California. He is the author of three books on India, including The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain
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