Nicholas B. Dirks
President and CEO
A widely respected and highly influential historian and anthropologist, and a prominent leader in higher education, in June 2020, Dirks assumed leadership of The New York Academy of Sciences as President and Chief Executive Officer. Founded in 1817, The New York Academy is among the oldest scientific organizations in the United States. The mission of the Academy is to drive innovative solutions to society’s challenges by advancing scientific research, education, and policy.
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Speaking Appearances
Opinion and Op-Ed Articles
Faculty-administrator distrust is making US universities ungovernable
Times Higher Education
The End of Disenchantment and the Future of the Humanities
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Ambivalence Over AI: We Are All Prometheus Now
Undark
Higher Education’s Donor Problem
TIME
Don’t let geopolitics get in the way of scientific cooperation with China
The Hill
Campus leaders shouldn’t be judged on their political pronouncements
Times Higher Education
Why we need to build an implicit trust in science
Khaleej Times
Podcast Appearances
The Uses and Abuses of the Modern University | The Politics Guys
The Delicate Balance of Teaching and Research in Modern Academia | unSILOed Podcast
What Are Universities For? | Commonweal Magazine
dotEDU | Beyond Berkeley: Lessons from a University Chancellor on the Front Lines
Chasing Leviathan | Free Speech, Controversy, and the University with Dr. Nicholas Dirks
The PhD Life Raft Podcast | The Changing Culture of the University with Nicholas B. Dirks
When Science Speaks | Applying Scientific Insights to Global Challenges, with Nicholas Dirks, Ph.D.
The ThoughtStretchers Education Podcast | Science, Truth, And Trust