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...says, “without forcing anything on you. And he completely changed my approach to writing papers.” Jenny J. Lee ’10, an English concentrator who took his Junior Tutorial last year, agrees that Jenkins is one-of-a-kind. “R. J. is the kind of person you would want to be at your wedding,” she says...

Author: By Nora A. Tufano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: R. J. Jenkins: He can teach you all about sex, primates, and Jake Gyllenhaal | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

When History Professor Niall C. D. Ferguson begins his lecture at 10:07 a.m., he abandons the podium, choosing instead to pace in a slow, deliberate loop around the lectern. He speaks with the kind of proper British accent that makes Anglophiles swoon. As he makes an argument about the French Revolution, his throat wraps around certain words with a silky aggression that he punctuates by cocking an eyebrow or gesturing with his left hand, index finger and thumb closed into an “o” around a stub of chalk. His words are actually improvised. His paper...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professors Who Rock Harvard | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...face. He sits with arms crossed, wearing a button-down denim shirt and one leg crossed, utterly relaxed except for an occasional foot wiggle. For someone with a cult of personality and a class size that sometimes reaches into four digits, he is eminently unthreatening. His aura is kind. The decor of his office, in contrast, is sparse and blocky, with the only color coming from the endless, neatly arranged books on economics lining the walls. He name drops a lot in a casual, amused manner, as if he’s surprised that everyone from the Obama administration...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professors Who Rock Harvard | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...that the cult surrounding Ferguson is based more on admiration and less on fanaticism. “I don’t think people worship the ground he walks on,” she says. “If I were to make a comparison, with the way people kind of idolize Greg Mankiw, i’m not sure if you’d find that same level of idolatry [with Ferguson...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professors Who Rock Harvard | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

When he recounts the story of a young man trapping him on the ferry, he displays the kind of wit that made him so popular in the first place...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professors Who Rock Harvard | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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