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“I am incredibly humbled by the confidence of my colleagues and very excited by the prospect of a career at Harvard," Nelson said.
Nelson's undergraduate years at Harvard were marked by academic fervor. The history concentrator won a Hoopes prize for his thesis, entitled "The Reluctant Humanist: Thomas Hobbes and the Classical Historians," and graduated summa cum laude in 1999.
After winning a Marshall scholarship and earning his MPhil. and Ph.D. at Cambridge University, Nelson joined the Harvard faculty as an assistant professor in 2005. He became an associate professor in 2009, and received tenure only a year later.
His colleagues know Nelson not just for his impressive array of credentials, but the mind and persona that lie underneath.
“I admire his work greatly," Professor of Government Michael E. Rosen said of Nelson in an e-mail. "The way that it combines historical erudition with conceptual acuteness is really extraordinary and the amount that he has written at such a young age�...