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Indeed, many scholars who have known Faust in a professional context praised her scholarship and intellectual engagement with work. John C. Inscoe, a professor of history at the University of Georgia and the secretary-treasurer of the Southern Historical Association (where Faust once served as president), says that Faust has “more than proven herself as a scholar and historian.” Inscoe also commented on Faust’s deft leadership of the Radcliffe Institute, where the intellectual and creative environment that Faust fosters keeps visiting scholars happy. “They all come back singing...
...Jung Hee, who served as South Korea’s president from 1961 until his assassination in 1979. Her mother had been assassinated in 1974. After her father’s death, Park dedicated her life to public service, managing several foundations, a hospital, a welfare center, and a scholarship fund. Park said that her country’s troubles during its 1997 financial crisis prompted her to become involved in national politics. In 1998, she ran and was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of the Grand National Party. Park said that the this December?...
...peripheral curiosities, its spat of fellows united only by their obsessive imposition of oftentimes-anachronistic “gendered” perspectives on their subject fields. Unlike many of the professional schools over which Faust will soon preside, the Radcliffe Institute is not on the cutting edge of scholarship or research...
...Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard has selected an academic indisputably well-qualified by the standards that govern today’s professional scholarship. But the Harvard President occupies a position more prominent than just that of a primer inter pares among the hundreds of professors...
...poet means you might sell about 50,000 copies. “And let’s assume the writer makes a dollar a book,” adds Emily K. Vasiliauskas ’07, a poet and one of two Harvard 2007 Marshall Scholarship recipients. Clearly, the audience for poetry isn’t what it used to be.Yet, despite apathy and lack of appreciation of serious poetry among the general populace, Harvard is home to an unusually large number of aspiring poets, and Harvard graduates stud the canon of star poets.Those involved in the creative writing community...