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...granting autonomy to departments of regional and ethnic studies, academics may think they are allowing marginalized historical characters to have voice in their own domain. But as literary critic and social theorist Gayatri Spivak writes in her article, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”(1988), post-colonial initiatives such as these may in fact be complicit in the task of imperialism. In creating a forum outside of the discipline of history that forces non-Western histories into anthropological molds, the ideal of collective speech may in fact silence the individual voices of the formerly colonized...
...After Lawrence H. Summers was ousted from Harvard’s presidency, Stone seriously considered leaving his post, as he thought that University President Drew G. Faust would want to install her own administration, and that it would be a natural transition point to exit Harvard. (Stone had previously left Columbia during its presidential transition...
...years after graduating from historically black Spelman College, she has become the dean of Harvard College, the first woman—let alone the first black woman—to assume the College’s highest post...
...April interview, Pilbeam mentioned the possibility of appointing an executive dean to help Hammonds with some of the responsibilities of the position, though the decision to create such a post now lies with...
...Summers had served as a deputy Treasury secretary when Rubin headed the department during the Clinton administration and the two had become close allies in Washington. When Rubin left his post as Treasury secretary, he helped secure Summers as his successor...