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...Radcliffe.” The former women’s college had recently merged with Harvard College, and the new Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study was still searching for definition. Today, the Institute hosts a prestigious Fellows Program that fully incorporates the world of science. Faust??s leadership in bringing a successful science program to Radcliffe highlights the qualities that she will hopefully bring as Harvard University’s next president...
With the dean search placed in Faust??s hands, some professors speculate that Knowles’ successor will be a male scientist both to provide proper balance to the female historian who will occupy Mass. Hall and to help assist in the direction of Harvard’s expansion of the sciences into Allston...
...Faust??s books are explorations of the acquisition of power, both within great legislative chambers and on plantations. No matter what Confederate apologists might think, slavery was not based on the passive acquiescence of an accepting slave population. The subjugation of the slave population was also not the immediate outcome of overwhelming force. Instead, mastery was a constant fight where whites used violence to repress people who never gave up, using both their minds and bodies to either escape or limit the impact of slavery. Faust??s “Mothers of Invention...
Faust focuses on the connections between Southern thinkers that made them intellectually productive. Ideas spread easily in cities, but the great distances that separate farmers challenge the transmission of new thoughts. Faust??s intellectuals were not the ante-bellum Bostonians whose easy interactions in dense urban environment produced abolitionism and transcendentalism...
Stone is the second Mass. Hall official to announce plans to stay on board at Faust??s request. University Provost Steven E. Hyman, who was appointed by Summers in 2001, said last month that he would continue to serve under Faust...