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...Universities cannot cover everything—we cannot teach all the languages of the world here,” says Classics Professor Jan M. Ziolkowski. “We have to make choices...
...former head of the classics, comparative literature, folklore and mythology, and medieval studies programs, and a former member of the Celtic languages and literatures department, Ziolkowski is no stranger to the smaller humanities disciplines. He currently directs the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in D.C., which dedicates itself to such specialties as Byzantine, garden and landscape, and pre-Columbian studies...
With a resume like this, Ziolkowski is familiar with reconciling the specialized academic focuses of smaller departments with their financial realities...
...deciding to support the smaller departments at Harvard—both financially and intellectually—Faust and Smith have been bucking the national trend by defying what Ziolkowski refers to as “American pragmatism”—the emphasis on studying subjects relevant to one’s immediate environment...
...Let’s say that you take care of crisis in the Mideast and that you cure tuberculosis,” Ziolkowski says. “You still have to make life worth living and enjoying for people. And that’s where the humanities come in...things that will bring us solace, bring us self-knowledge, increase our understanding of others as well...