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Sitting in his book-packed office, which is tucked away in a corner of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Peter Gordon said he has long been interested in becoming a professor...
...grew up in a family that placed a high value on academics and culture,” said Gordon, whose father is professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of Washington. “[Becoming a professor] always struck me as almost a default...
...Gordon recalled reading Platonic dialogues with his sister when he was 11 and 12 and later read the Book of Job, which he said struck him “as so disastrously unsatisfactory as an explanation for suffering that it probably moved me to read more systematically in both history and philosophy...
...Gordon began his undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago but transferred to Reed College and graduated with a degree in history along with philosophy. He went on to do his graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley...
Since coming to Harvard, Gordon has taught a wide variety of courses—from introductory surveys to advanced seminars—that, along with his writing and research, have kept him busy...