The Deanship
Posted on March 30th, 2007 in Uncategorized | 11 Comments »
Well! Yesterday’s post about the Crimson article certainly sparked a vigorous discussion. Thanks to all for participating.
Meantime, some new names have cropped up in the race for the deanship. To wit….and in no particular order….
Stanfield Professor of International Peace
Is interested in Brazil
Vice-provost for international affairs
Yale-educated
Recently spoke at “Harvard in Canada,” following Drew Faust
Nancy Rosenblum
Chair, Department of Government
Currently working on a theoretical study of political parties
(possibly useful knowledge in an FAS dean)
James Engell
Professor of English and Comp. Lit.
Co-author, Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money
Member, every committee at Harvard
Henry Louis Gates
Director, W.E.B. DuBois Institute,
etc., etc., etc.
Yale-educated,
apparently knows a lot of people
Allan Brandt
Professor of the history of medicine at HMS
and the department of the history of science
Author, No Magic Bullet: A Social History
of Venereal Disease, also potentially useful
for an FAS dean (i.e., the spread of disease/rumor)
Charles Rosenberg
Professor of the History of Science
Reportedly in bed with president-elect Drew Faust
Lawrence Summers
Former Treasury secretary
University professor
(On leave, 2006-2007)
11 Responses
3/30/2007 1:15 pm
Hilarious!
3/31/2007 2:50 am
Dominguez: http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=236612
3/31/2007 3:44 pm
Larry Summers is gay?
3/31/2007 6:58 pm
Who would be posting at 2.50am?
Or is she posting from Palo Alto at 10.50pm?
3/31/2007 7:10 pm
Strange question about Summers sexual preference. Much hatred finds a way to this blog.
3/31/2007 7:13 pm
I think that was a joke, actually, playing off the photo of him and Clinton.
4/1/2024 9:41 am
Always look for who benefits: Who is behind the attacks on Theda Skocpol orchestrated by media leaks? Nancy Rosenbloom and her supporters are the likeliest suspects. She has maneuvered since last spring for the deanship (claims that she “does not want it” are hilarious), and her supporters have to make sure no other nonscience female is in serious contention. NR would protect the status quo. There are powerful people who want her, some who are on or near the advisory group cited by the reporters as sources. (Funny thing is Rosenbloom is not respected much around FAS.) Crimson kids need to look closely at what many faculty think about all the contenders — and probe the behind the scenes interests of their own leaking sources.
4/1/2024 11:46 am
Nancy Rosenblum was pro-Larry Summers. She’s reputed to be a good department chair, but would she have wide support from the faculty?
4/1/2024 4:40 pm
Why are there so few women on these lists? Has everyone just decided that having a woman president is enough?
4/1/2024 5:16 pm
Two other important jobs are open at the same time: Dean of the Radcliffe Institute and University Librarian. Neither of those would have to go to an arts&sciences professor, but it seems they naturally would. And now, of course, there is the position of dean of the arts&sciences graduate school as well. And also the curricular report recommends that the new Gen Ed curriculum be put in the hands of a senior faculty member (why not the dean of the college?). It actually looks like a pretty shallow pool from which to fill all those jobs. Either that or Harvard has too many of these jobs. Is Harvard different from other places in some relevant way?
4/1/2024 6:16 pm
Maybe Dean of the College too.