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...Laiou was the first person the department recommended after its lengthy search, professors said yesterday...
Other History professors and Dean Rosovsky--who said he is "delighted" with the appointment of Laiou, who taught her as an assistant professor of History from 1969 to 1972--agreed yesterday that Laiou's gender played no role in her appointment, though Rosovsky's office has recently encouraged underutilizing departments like History to seek women scholars more aggressively...
Known for her books on the foreign policy of Andronicus II, an emperor in the late Byzantine period, and on peasant society in the same era, Laiou--currently a professor of history at Rutgers University--said yesterday she is "very excited" about returning to Harvard...
...will lead a seminar on "Women in the Byzantine Empire" next fall at Dumbarton Oaks. Harvard's center for Byzantine studies in Washington, D.C., which will share Laiou's joint appointment with the History department...
Though she said she has no knowledge of the department's deliberations in recommending her appointment, Laiou said she is "certain" her gender played no role in her selection. She added that because she was the only tenured woman in the history department at Rutgers College, being the only tenured woman in her department won't be her "first time...