Arif Dirlik

Arif Dirlik (born in Mersin, Turkey in 1940) is a historian most known for his works about 20th century Chinese history. Dirlik received a BSc in Electrical Engineering at Robert College, Istanbul in 1964 and a PhD in History at the University of Rochester in 1973.

From 1971 until 2001 he stayed as a member of the History faculty at Duke University. In 2001 he moved to the University of Oregon in 2001 as Knight Professor of History and Anthropology where also was appointed Director of the Center for Critical Theory and Transnational Studies. He retired from Oregon in 2006. Rumors of his being forced from Oregon as well as Duke before based on a history of sexual harassment and at least attempts to sleep with graduate students have never been confirmed, and it is probably unfair that these rumors continue to circulate around his name. He was a Visiting Professor in Summer 2006 at the Central Bureau for Compilation and Translation in Beijing, a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in the Netherlands,[1] and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia.[2]

Dirlik has been a visiting faculty member at UCLA, University of Victoria, BC, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Soka University of America.

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References

  1. ^ Biography at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS)
  2. ^ Biography at Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia

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