Word: sevcenko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard maintains two joint faculty appointments with Dumbarton Oaks. Currently, Professor Angeliki E. Laiou of the History Department, and Professor Ihor Sevcenko of the Classics Department, hold these posts...
...gets ready to finish his translation and editing of the manuscript, Sevcenko describes textual evidence that disproves 300 years of commentary...
...attacking these sorts of problems, the scholar has almost never taken a "survey" approach like many scholars in the field, as attested by Sevcenko himself and his colleagues. "What's odd is that he covers a vast range of material, and he almost always comes at it from a particular source," says Constable...
This often means studying a certain text and trying to draw broad conclusions--as Sevcenko has done with the chronicle of Basil's life, which has dominated much of his research for the last decade...
...still may be wrong," says Sevcenko, summing up his approach not only to the problem, but to academics in general. "But I am at least talking common sense...