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...when Professor Seyla Benhabib, one of the country's top scholars of German writers, decided to leave earlier this year for Yale, it left Harvard's department with few senior Faculty to offer graduate students in German political theory...
...graduate student had come here to study the German philosophers of the nineteenth century," says Williams Professor of History and Political Science Roderick L. MacFarquhar, the government department chair, "they certainly would have worked with Seyla...
Professor of Government Seyla Benhabib, chair of the Social Studies program and former chair of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, announced her departure for Yale this fall, saying she thought Social Studies would never attain departmental status...
...broader level, Schor's decision to leave once again calls our attention to the dearth of women Faculty at Harvard, especially in light of a similar decision made by Seyla Benhabib earlier this month. In losing Schor and Benhabib, the University loses two of its most distinguished female professors, the directors of two of its most unique degree granting programs and two of its most vocal proponents of gender equity in academia. Already abysmally small, the community of female Faculty members cannot afford diminution instead of growth. If Harvard is to make good on its promises of opening the traditionally...
Renowned scholar, star professor, ground-breaking feminist...Yalie? Professor of Government Seyla Benhabib should have known that great credentials and Yale residency do not mix well. Last Thursday, Benhabib announced she will leave her Harvard post as chair of the Committee on Social Studies for a professorship at Yale in a new political science department program. Benhabib, who is on sabbatical this semester, is one of Harvard's top political philosophers. She is widely recognized for her work in feminist theory, postmodernist theory, continental philosophy and political philosophy...