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...studying corporate organization, a pioneer in stem cell research, and an expert in 18th-century French literature may not share much outside of being leaders in their fields, but thanks to Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds, the three will have one title in common—House Master...
Last semester, Hammonds was left with the task of filling House Master positions in almost a quarter of Harvard’s undergraduate Houses. Within a span of two weeks during the end of 2009, Cabot House Masters Jay M. Harris and Cheryl L. Harris, Eliot House Masters Lino Pertile and Anna Bensted, and Mather House Masters Sandra F. Naddaff ’75 and Leigh G. Hafrey ’73 announced that they will step down from their positions at the end of the academic year, citing a variety of reasons ranging from a heavy workload...
Hammonds begins the House Master search process by canvassing her colleagues to find interested professors, according to Dean of Student Life Suzy M. Nelson. Each House convenes House advisory groups involving tutors, students, and staff, and the potential candidates visit the Houses to meet with these groups. These committees provide input on the candidates via surveys, but Hammonds makes the final decisions, Nelson said...
Ellison went on to receive a Master of Theological Studies at the Divinity School and then a Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Languages in 2002. His doctoral thesis was the result of a year’s research in Syria supported by a Fulbright fellowship. Entitled “A Paleographic Study of the Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ras Shamra/Ugaritic,” the final product was 950 pages long, split into three volumes, and contained 1,800 photographs...
Lowell House Master Diana Eck wrote in an e-mail that all of the House masters agreed to the new partnering among the houses “as a matter of fairness.” House Committee Co-Chairs from several of the houses involved said that they did not know that this plan was in the works until they were informed by their House Masters of the decision...