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...association commended May, also a professor at the Kennedy School of Government for more than forty years, for pioneering scholarship in international relations...
...communities that have been historically neglected by Euro-centric academia and to examine the social construction of race, class, gender and sexuality. Ethnic studies, the collective term that commonly refers to Afro-American, Asian American, Latino and Native American Studies, has often been connected to minority communities, but the scholarship seeks to diversify the curriculum to examine the experiences and perspectives of all ethnic groups, including “white” ethnic groups such as Irish and Jewish Americans. In essence, ethnic studies is about the fight for academic diversity...
...Square, so viewers can see the perimeter of the Yard framed by wrought-iron bars. Sometimes they scurry outside the Ivy League. A popular Harvard lookalike is Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. Both Soul Man, the story of a first-year Harvard Law School student desperate to secure a scholarship for black students, and the yet-to-be-released Prozac Nation were partly filmed there. With Honors was filmed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the Boston Athenaeum. Legally Blonde, starring Reese Witherspoon as a sorority girl who chases her boyfriend to HLS, was filmed...
...diverse. “We’ll have a lot more women, a lot more international Faculty and a lot more people of color,” Skocpol says. Those are the people, she says, who “will be going to graduate school and doing the scholarship of the future.” Those in the know view the future of Harvard’s Faculty through rainbow-colored glasses. “The hope and expectation,” Kiely says, “is that the day will come when the Faculty is as diverse...
...also a strong tendency toward specialization. Kiely remarks that one of the great challenges for students and professors will be to keep Harvard vigorous in terms of general interdisciplinary studies as well as in specific fields. He sees interdisciplinary work as one of the best ways to pursue scholarship. Citing the example of his freshman seminar, which combines the study of literature and that of the Christian religion, Kiely extols the virtues of studying a little bit of everything. “The student who comes here hoping just to do economics or engineering is not making the most...