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...without ever setting foot in a Harvard classroom without having to sacrifice their Harvard degree. A RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCEPeisker said she knew she wanted to go abroad before ever setting foot on campus, having already spent three summers in Ukraine. And she knew that Harvard, home to the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, would provide an opportunity to return.Freshman year she made sure to frontload courses that fulfilled the requirements for her concentration: social studies. But a problem arose mid-way through her sophomore year, when she decided the required thesis and intensive tutorials did not fit well with the pressures...
Known for her witty conversation and sharp analytic mind, the acclaimed historian of the Byzantine empire developed a public persona larger than life—perhaps overshadowing a compassion that translated into dedication to her students and their research...
...scholar of Byzantine studies spearheaded research in Mediterranean economic history and women’s history, and her 1985 appointment to lead the History department made her the first female chair of a department at Harvard—but Laiou put little import on her defiance of the norms...
...This is never something that she presented as an achievement or as an issue...It was remarkable that she could blaze so many trails without ever posturing as a pioneer,” said classics professor Jan M. Ziolkowski, director of Harvard’s research center Dumbarton Oaks, which Laiou led for nine years. “She just bolted forward on the basis of her knowledge, intelligence, views, and talents...
...professors since her deanship began in 2003, compared to 18 in the preceding two decades. Last year alone, the Law School landed six tenured professors, including then-University of Chicago professor Cass R. Sunstein ’75, the most-cited American law professor. Lessig, who was once a researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, said that his primary motivation for coming back to Harvard was the opportunity to research corruption and ethics as director of the Safra Center. “For the next five years we’re going...