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...Faust??€™s work focuses on the spread of ideas and the maintenance of power. She specializes in Southern intellectuals, like James Henry Hammond, Josiah C. Nott and Edmund Ruffin, who embraced slavery and later secession. These are complex characters whose racism was detestable, but who also fought hard to spread occasionally live-saving ideas: Nott promoted the fight against the mosquito to limit malaria, and Ruffin was an agronomist who advocated agricultural lime...
...Faust??€™s intellectuals are most famous for their ideas justifying human bondage. Hammond, who wanders through Faust??€™s work the way that populist Thomas Watson meanders through the works of C. Vann Woodward, is problematic both in his ideas and in his personal life. He became rich through marriage, sired children with his slaves, and almost destroyed his political career with a scandal involving his nieces...
Faust navigates this moral maelstrom with Olympian equanimity. While most of us would be drawn to harsh condemnation, Faust??€™s quest is to understand. The balance she shows surely reflects both her values as a historian and her character—this is good for the University...
...asked for suggestions of individual candidates in an earlier e-mail. Yesterday’s meeting was intended to solicit input prior to the submission of those suggestions, Ryan said. Administrators, including interim FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles, left the room during the discussion of the search. Before Faust??€™s arrival, the council hashed through proposed curricular review legislation, slated for introduction at the next full meeting of the Faculty in April. The council is in the process of translating the recommendations of the general education report into that legislation. “We did not go over...
...many benefits that an unofficial one does not—it would likely get more time to actually talk to Faust, and her imprimatur would increase the committee’s profile, garnering more and better input. Having an official student committee is all the more important because of Faust??€™s lack of experience overseeing undergraduates. Indeed, at a recent meeting with the UC, Faust admitted she had only a few limited windows on the Harvard undergraduate experience—her daughter, who graduated nearly three years ago, and the history seminar she is currently teaching. Consequently, Faust...