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Faculty Q&A: Nicholas B. Dirks

Nicholas B. Dirks [Image credit: Eileen Barroso / Columbia University]

A longtime devotee of interdisciplinary study and research, Nicholas B. Dirks relishes finding new ways to bring disparate fields and factions closer together. While a professor at the University of Michigan, he held a joint appointment with the anthropology and history departments and created an interdepartmental Ph.D. program in the two disciplines. After becoming chair of Columbia’s anthropology department in 1997, he made it broadly interdisciplinary.

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