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...give credit where credit is due, only the margins of Harvard—the Committee on Degrees in the Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and those courses taught by departing Lecturer on the Study of Religion Brian C.W. Palmer ’86—are totally closed off to dissenting voices. The recent appointment of Niall Ferguson, who will enjoy a dual appointment to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School, proves this well enough. His apologia for the British empire and his recent argument that America is and should be an empire are hardly...
True to the economist in him, Ferguson finds fault with the way Oxford and Cambridge allocate their most precious academic resource—their professors. Ferguson says that undergraduate history students, with their diverse backgrounds and interests, can be taught in a large class instead of in a small, Oxford-style tutorial...
...Ferguson says, he encountered the latter problem—graduate students being taught in a large class when they needed a tutorial system...
...first Harvard teaching will be an HBS course on “Business, Government and the International Economy” in spring 2005, and he plans to design a history department course on World War II, which could be taught as early as spring 2006. Ferguson says that he also wants to help in the history department’s implementation of the College’s ongoing curricular review, including the development of a world history survey course...
Lajer-Burcharth, an expert in 18th and 19th century French art, has also taught extensively on critical and feminist theory. She could not be reached for comment over the weekend...