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Diana Sorensen, the divisional dean for the arts and humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will leave Harvard at the end of the academic year to take a year-long sabbatical...
Sorensen, who unexpectedly found herself at the frontlines of FAS as it navigated through an unprecedented financial crisis, has served as the divisional dean since 2006, when she first assumed the position as a temporary replacement for departing dean and current Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Maria Tatar...
...conclusion of her year-long acting deanship, Sorensen was appointed the dean of arts and humanities in July 2007. Following that two-year appointment, she agreed to serve for an additional year in the role, though she had planned on returning to full-time teaching and research in 2009, Sorensen wrote in an e-mailed statement...
...January e-mail to the Faculty announcing Sorensen’s imminent departure, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith praised her leadership and asked for help in searching for a replacement—which he plans to announce in June...
During her tenure as divisional dean, Sorensen—also the Rothenberg professor of Romance Languages and Literature and of Comparative Literature—has weathered the worst financial crisis in decades, while simultaneously commanding the respect of her colleagues and maintaining the strength of the arts and humanities. Earlier this spring, the division garnered two new English professors from Columbia despite steep reductions in the number of searches authorized by the central administration at Harvard...