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Medieval history may seem a bit arcane to most undergraduates, but this spring they'll have the opportunity to take courses with a prominent Oxford historian of the subject...
Karl J. Leyser, a visiting professor of history who retired from All Souls College in Oxford last year, says he was invited to Harvard in order to fill a gap in the History Department's curriculum...
...scholar says that he became interested in his esoteric field when he began teaching at Oxford in 1948. According to Leyser, someone suggested to him that medieval Germany was an interesting, and largely unexplored, field...
...course of his lengthy academic career, Leyser has spent time in the United States as a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. His stint at Harvard this spring was arranged before his retirement last year from Oxford, so the scholar decided to prolong his stay in academia for at least another semester...
Goodgame, 34, confesses to being not so patient a waiter as Duffy, but he's learning. A native of Pascagoula, Miss., Goodgame studied at the University of Mississippi and at Oxford. After stints at the Tampa Tribune and Miami Herald, he joined TIME's Los Angeles bureau in 1984, where he covered everything from immigration to movie stars. "My editors, in their wisdom, saw some natural progression from profiling Bill Cosby to covering the President," he says...