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...historian Melissa McCormick received tenure from the East Asian Languages and Civilizations department this July, becoming a professor of Japanese art and culture. Her research on the Tale of Genji, a seminal Japanese novel composed by a woman over 1000 years ago, and her work on the relationship between painting and literature in pre-modern Japan have helped bring her to the forefront of her field. “She is certainly more than deserving [of tenure],” said History of Art and Architecture Associate Professor Yukio Lippit ’93, McCormick’s husband...
...historian Melissa McCormick received tenure from the East Asian Languages and Civilizations department this July, becoming a professor of Japanese art and culture...
African Americans have been coming to Martha's Vineyard since the 18th century, according to historian and resident Robert Hayden; many current black residents can trace their homes back for generations. While the first African slaves arrived on the island in the 1700s, freed blacks came to work in the service industry after the Civil War, and later they came as entrepreneurs. Eventually they were absorbed into an emerging community of African-American professionals, many of whom summer in picturesque Oak Bluffs, an oceanfront town of quaint gingerbread homes. "They were not segregated in the island community, as blacks were...
...Civil War historian by training, the affable Faust was chosen by the Harvard Corporation to patch up tensions left over from the University’s own civil war between the Faculty and Faust’s predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers. So far, Harvard’s first female president seems to have won the goodwill of many—even eating lunch with students in Eliot House on one occasion, only to find herself the recipient of an over-sized t-shirt protesting layoffs. While the endowment plunges, she continues to cling to her “green?...
...Hammonds is both Harvard’s first minority and first female Dean of the College. In a 2004 article in The Black Studies Reader, she described herself as “a Black, lesbian, feminist, writer, scientist, historian of science, and activist.” Taking her minority status to heart, she chose Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Stephanie Robinson—an African-American couple that teaches at Harvard Law School—as Winthrop House’s new masters when the previous House masters stepped down. But some students have complained about Hammonds’ lack...