Arif Dirlik

Arif Dirlik taught at Duke University for thirty years as Professor of History and Anthropology before moving in 2001 to the University of Oregon where he served as Knight Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of History and Anthropology, and Director of the Center for Critical Theory and Transnational Studies. After retiring from UO in 2006, he accepted a two-year appointment as Chair Professor of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he was also Honorary Professor of History and Cultural Studies, and Honorary Director of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies. He subsequently has held visiting positions as the Liang Qichao Memorial Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and, most recently, as the Rajni Kothari Chair in Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India. He has served as a Visiting Fellow at the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau in Beijing, and is an Honorary Adjunct Professor at the Center for the Study of Marxist Social Theory in Nanjing University. He lives in Eugene, Oregon, USA.