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Daniel J. Hemel ’07 is a Marshall scholar studying international relations at Oxford. He was managing editor of The Harvard Crimson...
...years after Rudenstine’s decision, the issue of tenure remains a hot topic among junior faculty. In 2004 then-University President Lawrence H. Summers’ refusal to tenure Marcyliena Morgan—the resident hip-hop scholar of Harvard’s African and African American Studies Department—led to her departure as well as that of her renowned sociologist husband, Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo. After interim President Derek C. Bok approved a tenure offer for Morgan last spring, University President Drew...
...Harvard African-American studies and religion scholar Marla Frederick says many of the women with whom Bynum's preaching resonates have seen just as many reversals as in their own lives, and they yearn for a God who will ride the roller coaster with them. "Pentecostal faith is really about the power of the Holy Spirit to instantaneously transform life," she says. But she admits she personally is troubled that "taking a personal story and turning it into a narrative of triumph also becomes something that can be marketed for profit...
...conundrum, and Patel is obliged to rake through centuries and continents for the seeds - pardon the pun - of the world's dietary inequity. The library work is solid - he is currently a researcher at South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal, as well as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. As you would expect from that résumé, he writes like an academic - but that's not to say the book is bloodless. Patel has a highly developed historical sense of why we eat as we do, and if readers who have enough food understand...
...vehicle to perpetuate the memory of Jackie Robinson” and “an advocate for young people with the greatest need.” Established by the wife of the legendary African-American baseball player after he died in 1973, there are currently 259 Jackie Robinson Scholars, nine of which are now at Harvard. Della Britton-Baeza, president and CEO of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, says, “Jackie Robinson [the student] sums up all the values we hope to instill in our students—commitment to community service, academic performance, musical pursuits?...