Arif Dirlik

Arif Dirlik (born in Mersin, Turkey in 1940) is a US historian of Turkish origin who has published extensively on historiography and political ideology in modern China, as well as issues in modernity, globalization, and post-colonial criticism. 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.

Dirlik presently lives in Eugene, OR, in semi-retirement. He most recently(Fall 2011) held the Rajni Kothari Chair in Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India. In Fall 2010, he served as the Liang Qichao Memorial Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He will hold a brief appointment as Green Professor at the University of British Columbia in February 2016.