Word: roxburgh
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University President Lawrence H. Summers approved the promotion of Islamic art historian David J. Roxburgh to the rank of senior professor yesterday only hours after an ad hoc committee recommended the move...
...decision makes Roxburgh the youngest senior faculty member in the department and one of the youngest in the University...
...Roxburgh began his career as an artist, graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 1988. Immediately after receiving his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, he joined Harvard’s ranks as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor...
...Akbamia said that what distinguishes Roxburgh from other professors is how his enthusiasm for his own scholarship leads to support for the work of his students...
...teaching fellow in Roxburgh’s course, Literature and Arts B-46: “Art in the Wake of the Mongol Conquests: Genghis Khan and His Successors,” Akbamia said Roxburgh learned the name of every one of the 90 students in his class and often publicized their athletic games in lecture...