Word: sub-field
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...scholar who works in a discipline (history) and a sub-field (Civil War history) largely dominated by men, Faust knows what it is like to deviate from the norm. Perhaps that accounts for her capacity to take Harvard’s peculiar folkways in stride. In that 2001 speech, she cautioned the entering class not to be afraid to question what they saw. “When you hear—in this most wonderfully tradition-bound institution—that something is because it has always been that way, take a moment to ask which of the past?...
...Carpenter is the informal leader of the sub-field, and he is the only person who is not leaving,” Burden said...
...classes offered during the sub-field's maiden semester covered topics ranging from health care economics to deductive logic. About 170 students enrolled in the courses...
...main task is to restore American politics,to boost the American politics sub-field to a newhigh," MacFarquhar says...
While Stimson says it is "objectively the casethat [the] American [sub-field] is the weakestunit [at Harvard]," the chief hang-up in thenegotiations has been finding a job for his wife,who is a hospital administrator. Stimson says heis "beyond hopeful" that the sub-field is alreadyimproving...