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...March 3 article, "Hist 10a Could Be Ancient History," incorrectly characterized Baird Professor of History Mark A. Kishlansky's remarks regarding a proposal to change requirements for history concentrators. Kishlansky did say that the department was considering a proposal to scrap a rule that makes History 10a and either History 10b or 10c mandatory for concentrators, and to replace it with a requirement that concentrators take one pre-modern history course and another course geographically removed from their area of interest. However, Kishlansky did not say that the department was considering the outright elimination of the 10a course, which...
Think of a Harvard history professor, and the first thing that comes to mind might be a stodgy, Exeter-bred Brit sporting a tweed jacket, suede elbow patches, and a bowtie. Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, Quincy House tutor and style guru, and Hist. and Lit. and Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS) lecturer, offers something totally different. But McCarthy isn’t just revolutionary in his clothing choices. He’s also helping change the way we look at history by teaching a type of course never before available at Harvard...
...figure salary next year? Check. Captain of three different sports teams? Score. Darling of the Hist and Lit Department? Oh yeah...
...right now, Harvard has a few islands of interdisciplinarity in a sea of deeply entrenched academic departments. But even long-established tropical interdisciplinary paradises such as history and literature have major problems integrating disciplines. Hist and lit has its recognizably history-oriented TFs and its literature-oriented TFs. Students break down generally the same way. Again, there are always exceptions. But neither teachers nor students are ever required to stray far from their comfort zones, even when they are technically expected...
...celebrity judges to arbitrate the proceedings, or at least the finals of the competitions at each height, is akin to sending Hist and Lit sophomore essays to outside evaluators...