Faculty of Arts and Sciences

As the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology, a professor of history, and the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Nicholas Dirks has a massive job description. But his post, he says, allows him to “realize as many of the aspirations that the University is invested in, because the realities are always more difficult, messy, expensive, and contested than the idea would suggest.”

Whoever is selected as the next permanent dean of the School of International and Public Affairs will find the institution primed for a makeover.