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Meet Alison F. Richard—a British anthropologist who has risen to top posts in higher education on both sides of the Atlantic. She spent 30 years at Yale, including nearly nine as provost. And since 2003, she has served as head of John Harvard’s alma mater, the University of Cambridge...
...think she would be terrific,” says Yale anthropologist John F. Szwed who has known Richard for 25 years. “I think she would be something in the best tradition and a breath of fresh...
Among her teachers at Cambridge was Harvard anthropologist David R. Pilbeam. Pilbeam, the Ford professor of human evolution, told The Crimson in November that Richard is “very much the sort of person that would do well as a university president here...
...Yale anthropologist Szwed says that Richard was “fearless” as an assistant professor...
...plan to come to Cambridge at all,” Richard told The Financial Times in 2004. “My plan after Yale was to resume my life as an anthropologist, but I became persuaded that this was a wonderful opportunity and challenge, and this last year has confirmed that sense. I have no regrets in doing this...