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...Brandt said, declining to comment further. Brandt enters an office that has a rocky recent history. In February 2005, anthropologist Peter T. Ellison resigned from the post, protesting what he saw as dishonest behavior by former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers. This past spring, outgoing dean Theda R. Skocpol abruptly resigned from the position as well after her candidacy for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences deanship appeared to falter. The Crimson yesterday obtained a draft of Brandt’s acceptance message. “I am enormously honored to assume the leadership of the Graduate School of Arts...
Reached at his home tonight, Brandt declined to comment. Theda Skocpol, the current dean of GSAS who announced her resignation in March, also declined to comment. She has continued to hold the deanship during the search for her successor...
According to data compiled by GSAS Dean Theda R. Skocpol, Harvard offered a $19,700 stipend and two summers of support to incoming humanities students this year. The packages fell short of those offered at other universities, such as MIT, Stanford, and Princeton, which all provided at least $20,000 and four summers of financial support...
...Theda R. Skocpol, outgoing dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said the University will use resources already in place to launch the initiative...
While Smith said he believed the post—which opened up in March, when current GSAS Dean Theda Skocpol announced her intention to resign—would be filled before winter break, he did note that any timeline would be contingent on whether he could sell the deanship’s appeal to the candidates being sought...