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Tag: Memorial Minutes
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Campus & Community
Lawrence Elwood Stager, 74
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 3, 2020, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Lawrence E. Stager, Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Stager built formidable programs on the ancient Near East that encompassed anthropology, classical archaeology,…
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Campus & Community
Peter Rogers, 80
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 3, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Peter Philip Rogers, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Rogers contributed broadly to the science of water management.
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Campus & Community
Howard Scott Hibbett, 98
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 3, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Howard Scott Hibbett, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Japanese Literature, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Hibbett was one of the great translators of Japanese literature.
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Campus & Community
Stanley Lieberson, 84
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 5, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Stanley Lieberson, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Lieberson made wide-ranging contributions to the study of race and ethnicity, cultural and linguistic change, and…
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Campus & Community
Nicolau Sevcenko, 61
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 1, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Nicolau Sevcenko, professor of romance languages and literatures, was placed upon the records. Professor Sevcenko was one of Brazil’s foremost urban and cultural historians.
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Campus & Community
James Allan Davis, 86
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 7, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late James Allan Davis, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Davis devoted himself to building empirical foundations for social science, especially in survey and public opinion research.
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Campus & Community
Patrick Thaddeus, 84
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 7, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Patrick Thaddeus, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Thaddeus was a founder of and long-time leader in the field of astrochemistry
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Campus & Community
Jurij Striedter, 80
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Jurij Striedter, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature, was placed upon the records. Professor Striedter was a leading scholar of Russian literature.
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Campus & Community
Joseph L. Henry
Nothing about Joseph L. Henry was ordinary. In his academic career he excelled noticeably above others — as a student, teacher, department chair, dean, board member, national policy adviser, and as a mentor to many health professionals and policy makers.
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Campus & Community
Oleg Grabar
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Oleg Grabar, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Grabar was one of Islamic art and architecture’s most influential and insightful scholars.
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Campus & Community
Sidney R. Coleman
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 15, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Sidney R. Coleman, Donner Professor of Science, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. For much of his career, Professor Coleman was the preeminent teacher of quantum field theory in the world.
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Campus & Community
Brendan Arnold Maher
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 6, 2010, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Brendan Arnold Maher, Edward C. Henderson Professor of the Psychology of Personality, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Maher’s scholarship centered on the complex theoretical and empirical problems surrounding human psychopathology.
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Campus & Community
Gwynne Blakemore Evans
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 6, 2010, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Gwynne Blakemore Evans, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Evans was the foremost Shakespearean textual scholar of his day.
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Campus & Community
Angeliki E. Laiou
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 11, 2010, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Angeliki E. Laiou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History, was placed upon the records. Laiou was known for her path-breaking research in Mediterranean economic and women’s history.
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Campus & Community
David Maybury-Lewis
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 15, 2009, the minute honoring the life and service of the late David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Maybury-Lewis was a humane defender of the rights of indigenous peoples.
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Campus & Community
Craig Hugh Smyth
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 6, 2008, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Craig Hugh Smyth, Director of Villa I Tatti Professor of Fine Arts, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Smyth was a promoter of the study and practice of art conservation.