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...grew up...knowing that it was going to be really hard for me to have a job going from 9 to 5, to have a boss, having little control over what I did with my day.” Julie Zikherman ’96, Jasanoff??s former roommate in Adams, says she wasn’t at all surprised by Jasanoff??s career path. “Some of the fun that she has in history has to do with telling stories and she’s clearly always loved that, and she does that...
...incredibly strong sense” of what profession she would pursue after college, academia “was always one of the options.” Following her post-doc work, Jasanoff taught at the University of Virginia. She applied for a tenure track position at Harvard in 2006. Jasanoff??s parents are also on the Harvard faculty.Although most Harvard professors may seem as old as Harvard itself, some departments feature recent Harvard graduates, like Jasanoff, who return to Harvard to teach after relatively short hiatuses in the real world. Assistant Professor of Government Eric M. Nelson...
...courses for Societies of the World credit last Thursday, bringing the total number of Gen Ed courses to 56. Though the two courses—classics professor Richard J. Tarrant’s Literature and Arts C-61: “The Rome of Augustus” and Maya Jasanoff??s Historical Study A-88: “The British Empire”—hail from different Core Curriculum categories, they will share the same home under the new Gen Ed program. Although Societies of the World is expansive enough to house courses in both literature...
...seek knowledge to the best of their abilities. The purpose of grading is not to please alumni, or to prove that Harvard is tougher than other schools. Grading is certainly not designed to discourage students from seeking knowledge they otherwise would—and yet that is exactly what Jasanoff??s policy...
This spring, Vaux reduced the requirements of Linguistics 80 to bring them closer in line with other large Harvard courses, and over 500 students enrolled. He says he passed on to his teaching fellows Jasanoff??s order to limit A and A- grades, although Vaux suggested a limit of 50 percent instead of 25 percent. Still, he says, “This being my final year, we intend to go more on what students deserve,” although he added that it does not necessarily mean half his students will...