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...course the hope that those graduate students who take the graduate seminar will be the [teaching fellows] when the course is offered in the following year,” he said. “Then there will be courses in General Education with well-trained TFs who have a certain sense of expertise and a certain sense of ownership in those courses...
History is certainly a worthy course of study. Harvard boasts numerous courses devoted to studying the world’s histories, and when it examines its own individual history, it is equally valuable as an academic effort, even if that story is a troubled one. A four-person research seminar taught this fall by history professor Sven Beckert revealed the unfortunate connections between slavery and prominent individuals in Harvard’s legacy. This investigation is a worthy endeavor to increase the awareness of the economic and personal ties to slavery at Harvard. Moreover, it is to the credit...
...threshold of embarrassment about smells, sexuality, and defecation? This fall, history professor Walter L. Johnson will seek to answer this question in his new course, “Bodily Functions: The History of Bare Life and Biopower.” Johnson said that those who enroll in his seminar will work through various approaches, including Marxism, cultural anthropology, post-modernism, and feminism to study different topics on the history of the body, “The idea is to think in a suggestive rather than exhaustive manner about the way that historians and social theorists have thought about the history...
...name also happens to mean “hill.” “They wanted an ‘A’ name after my great-grandfather, Alec. The first person who ever mentioned it to me was Helen Vendler when I was interviewing for her freshman seminar.” A familiar face among the cast of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s Mainstage productions, Hill is the 2008 recipient of the Radcliffe Doris Cohen Levi Prize. The medal is awarded by the Harvard Office for the Arts to “the Harvard undergraduate...
...Another prominent Harvardian implicated in slavery was John Hancock, Class of 1754, who served as Treasurer of the University from 1773 to 1777. McDonald C. Bartels ’09, who was in Beckert’s seminar, found that one of Hancock’s business partners, James Rowe, traded slaves. Hancock donated ?554 to Harvard College...