Word: professorships
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...bovine guest was the charge of Harvey G. Cox Jr., Hollis Research Professor of Divinity, who brought her as part of an afternoon-long celebration of his retirement. In doing so, he revived a practice not observed since Edward Wigglesworth—the first to hold the Hollis professorship in 1722—and his son, who succeeded him, first brought their livestock out to graze. Cox retired this past June after 44 years at the Harvard Divinity School, where his position was the oldest endowed chair in the country, and where he established a reputation...
...back to the Greeks—beginning with the fifth century B.C.E. Sophists, or even earlier. Long ago, thinkers highly valued verbal persuasion and deemed it a central facet of education. The field of rhetoric changed and developed during Roman rule and onward, until Harvard itself established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory in 1806. It was Francis J. Child, the second professor to hold the position, who shifted the job once and for all toward literature and away from public speaking. Now, Harvard’s commitment to rhetoric is almost nothing more than a memory...
...week. O’Sullivan, an expert on Middle Eastern politics who served as a special assistant to president George W. Bush and helped implement the Bush administration’s surge strategy in the Iraq war, has been appointed as a professor of practice. The five-year renewable professorship generally is given to those with extensive political or diplomatic experience outside of academics. “Meghan brings a combination of a really rare intelligence with practical, on the ground experience,” said Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75. “What...
After a worldwide search for a candidate to fill Harvard’s new professorship in Chinese social history, former Associate Professor Michael Szonyi was selected to assume the post on July 1, 2009. Szonyi is a social historian who, in addition to reading historical texts, seeks to challenge historical accounts by speaking with village elders, collecting documents from villagers, and observing lineage and temple rituals in order to see history from a local perspective, he said. “It takes a very different skill set than the one we usually associate with history,” Szonyi said...
...While King said he’s received a number of congratulatory e-mails asking whether his professorship allows him to graze a cow in Harvard Yard, the description of the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professorship makes no mention of cows...