Word: laiou
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Born in Athens, Laiou served as deputy secretary of foreign affairs of Greece in 2000 and member of the Parliament there...
...Laiou died of thyroid cancer at Mass. General Hospital on Thursday afternoon...
...scholar of Byzantine studies spearheaded research in Mediterranean economic history and women’s history, and her 1985 appointment to lead the History department made her the first female chair of a department at Harvard—but Laiou put little import on her defiance of the norms...
...never something that she presented as an achievement or as an issue...It was remarkable that she could blaze so many trails without ever posturing as a pioneer,” said classics professor Jan M. Ziolkowski, director of Harvard’s research center Dumbarton Oaks, which Laiou led for nine years. “She just bolted forward on the basis of her knowledge, intelligence, views, and talents...
Graduate student in history Rowan W. Dorin ’07 remembered Laiou as an undergraduate advisor who demanded more than he ever thought he could give...