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Only eight days before she passed away, history professor Angeliki E. Laiou was still writing letters of recommendation for her students...
...experience was incredible,” Dorin said, adding that Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History Angeliki E. Laiou “was the ideal thesis superviser—she never said the thesis was an end unto itself. It was about the trials and tribulations of academia. She let me be very independent and let me have free rein...
...ignorance of history, as Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History Angeliki E. Laiou warned, will delude students into presuming “that we, and our societies, have sprung forth like Athena from the head of Zeus: fully formed, fully armed, with no past to remember, forget, or learn from.” Rather than the urbane cosmopolitans it intends to manufacture, products of Harvard’s new anti-historical General Education will lamentably remain intellectual provincials: short-sighted, unreflective, and distinctly illiberal...
...think this will lead us to really unpleasant conclusions as to how we see the world as a sort of backyard of the United States,” Laiou said...
...Basically, you’re going to replace a system of general education whose basic philosophy is one with which a great number of the Faculty members agree,” Laiou said...