Word: academicization
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And Faust is poised to bring the skills that she honed in her academic career—not least a dedication to provoking discussion about contentious issues—to bear on the presidency, infusing the office with a respect for and understanding of the past.
ACADEMIC BATTLEFIELDS
McPherson, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, says that though the article was “not controversy of the first order,” it elicited several published challenges—the ultimate academic compliment.
Faust has gradually broadened her academic interest, from focusing almost exclusively on the antebellum South to including the war itself. “This Republic of Suffering” also marks her first significant foray into analysis of the Northern experience.
Ayers, who became Richmond’s president on July 1, the same day that Faust took office at Harvard, says that Faust’s academic work reveals a combination of “patience and fearlessness” that he says he recognizes in her leadership style.