# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicholas-dirks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:20:17.388Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nicholas-dirks"
name: "Nicholas Dirks"
slug: "nicholas-dirks"
description: "Nicholas B. Dirks is an American academic and a former Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. Dirks is the author of numerous books on South Asian history and culture, primarily concerned with the impact of British colonial rule. In June 2020, Dirks was named president and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nicholas_Dirks_-_The_Daily_Californian_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-12-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             5.609397944199706
  historical:           4.638268
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ನಿಖೊಲಸ್ ಡಿರ್ಕ್ಸ್"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump