Word: throntveit
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Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit, the assistant director of undergraduate studies for the History Department, said he and his office originally believed that thesis writers who needed to stay on campus were not guaranteed housing...
Over a decade ago, Lecturer on History Trygve V. R. Throntveit ’01, a St. Paul, Minn. native, arrived on Harvard’s campus for his undergraduate education. Young, eager, and motivated, Throntveit pursued a History and Literature degree. Soon, he was turning the heads of professors with his ideas on William James’s pragmatism and its effects on American politics, and won the Ralph Waldo Emerson prize in his junior year...
...didn’t always know that I wanted to be a historian,” Throntveit says. “I thought I wanted to stay in school because I always liked it and then everything else just kind of happened...
...History 1452 lectures on the Vietnam War and the end of Richard Nixon’s presidency, Throntveit filled the board with detailed outlines from end to end. Though Throntveit breezed through the dense material effortlessly, he refrains from deeming himself an expert on the topic...
...recent addition to Harvard’s faculty, Throntveit’s future as a professor has not been set, but according to Kloppenberg, he has been hired as the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in History. Given his significant contributions to Harvard and his flexibility with plans, Throntveit is on a path to continue educating and guiding students for years to come...