Word: higonnet
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...Harvard, we expect faculty from other countries to at least try to understand ours. It’s a shame that Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History Patrice Higonnet is failing so spectacularly. In his remarkably obtuse piece published last month in the French newspaper “Liberation,” Higonnet demonstrates his intolerable ignorance of, and animosity towards, large swathes of the American people...
...would also like to know what Higonnet meant when he called National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice “opportunistic.” I want to be generous, yet I can’t help but think that Higonnet meant to say a black woman can not occupy a key position of power in a Republican administration without betraying her blackness. I could be wrong, but I think he owes it to his students to explain what he meant and why a Harvard professor left his comments open to such an obvious racialist interpretation...
Professor Higonnet, if he reads this, will probably use it in his next article as an example of dissent being attacked in America. The tedious attitude that equates criticism with intimidation and censorship is sadly powerful among scholars who are generally only praised as progressives for their outlandish beliefs. However, I don’t think that he should be stopped from presenting his beliefs. In fact, I think he ought to explain more clearly to Harvard conservatives who admire the leadership of President Bush why we are actually racist, greedy, imperialist bigots...
Pressure to publish is an inherent part of the job description for junior faculty. Publishing has become such an integral part of academia that Professor of French History Patrice Higonnet says that there is a joke about it among academics...
...Higonnet says that because it is such a general pressure in academia, the pressure to publish has been “interiorized” at Harvard—it is all part of a day’s work. “There is no question that Harvard expects faculty to do both serious research and teaching...