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The formation of the committee represents the beginning of the process to find a successor for current Dean Jeremy R. Knowles, who announced three weeks ago that he planned to step down in July after 11 years in office.
“It would be a mistake at this point to narrow it down by discipline,” said committee member and sociology chair Mary C. Waters. “Dean Knowles knows more about many areas of the humanities than many people, despite their formal expertise. You...
The gender disparity was so apparent that, according to Knowles, his “first charge” to the committee was to “deal with the unremitting maleness” of the portraits in the Faculty room in University Hall—none portrayed females at the...
And a portrait of Mrs. Samuel Ripley, who tutored Harvard preparatory students to supplement her husband’s income, hangs in poor condition on the wall of the office of Jane Knowles, interim director of Radcliffe’s Schlessinger Library.
“She was the mother of eight, taught boys and rusticated Harvard students in her home [and] would read Homer or Virgil as she shelled peas and rocked a cradle,” Knowles said of Ripley in a memo she sent to Emilie Norris, who is the...