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Patrice L. R. Higonnet ’58 is the Goelet Professor of French History at Harvard. He is a member of the Center for European Studies...
...Livesey “has this new way of thinking about the Revolution,” says Goelet Professor of French History Patrice Higonnet, who taught Livesey when he was a grad student and remains close to the professor from the University of Sussex...
...Sutton Hoo in the Light of the New Excavations: a Political Weathervane of the Seventh Century” to a crowd of nearly 100 in the Tsai Auditorium at the Center for Government and International Studies. According to Harvard’s Medieval Studies committee member and Goelet Professor of Medieval History Michael McCormick, the lecture was an opportunity for Harvard to further cultivate its medieval archaeology studies. The first course in this subject at Harvard was taught last fall. “Medieval archaeology doesn’t really exist in America,” McCormick said...
...Barker Center’s Thompson Room was abuzz with excitement on Wednesday, as Goelet Professor of Medieval History Michael McCormick approached the podium to introduce the inaugural lecture in a series on migration and medieval culture.For the 50 audience members, the lecture, which focused on the collaboration of a physicist and an archaeologist, was more than a speech. It signaled a renewed commitment to medieval studies at Harvard.Two years ago, McCormick was awarded $1.5 million as part of a grant from the Mellon Foundation in New York. Each year, the Mellon Foundation gives five humanities scholars the Distinguished Achievement...
Physically, but even more so in the minds of those who study there, Widener Library is the heart of Harvard. Michael McCormick, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History, has termed visiting Widener “an almost ineffable experience.” Nobel Prize winner Dudley Herschenbach described the construction as “a huge Mayan temple.” He also wrote of “the spiritual impact” of entering the stacks, those “sacred, otherworldly precincts.” Even the recently completed renovations, which have made the library easier to navigate...