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ALUMNI QUARTERLY The graduate school of arts and sciences | harvard university fall/winter 2011 In With the New Jeffrey Schnapp and the rise of the digital humanities The graduate school of arts and sciences • harvard university Colloquy ALUMNI QUARTERLY An Expansive, Plugged-In Vision 2 for the Humanities At metaLAB, Jeffrey Schnapp and a core group of PhD students are building a new collaborative Allan M. Brandt Harvard Alumni Association dean space for experimental approaches to the arts Appointed Directors David Staines • Daniel R. Johnson and humanities. Margot N. Gill administrative dean GSAA Council Ex Officio Drew Gilpin Faust The 360th Commencement Elisabeth Nuñez 6 president of Harvard University A GSAS lens on Harvard’s annual rite of director of publications and alumni relations Michael D. Smith passage, welcoming the new members of our dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Bari Walsh alumni community. Allan M. Brandt editor dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Margot N. Gill Sametz Blackstone Associates administrative dean of the Graduate School of design A 20th Anniversary Arts and Sciences 7 Michael Shinagel Celebrating a milestone for Dudley House, the Graduate School Alumni Association PhD ’64, English and American literature and language, Graduate School’s pioneering student center. (GSAA) Council dean of Continuing Education and University Extension Naomi André, PhD ’96, music John P. Reardon Jr. Reinier Beeuwkes, COL ’62, PhD ’70, division of medical sciences AB ’60 Thomas Davenport, PhD ’80, sociology executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association Mia de Kuijper, MPA ’83, PhD ’83, economics Stacy Dick, AB ’78, PhD ’83, economics Colloquy with . Bruce Alberts, 8 A. Barr Dolan, AM ’74, applied sciences The GSAA is the alumni association of Harvard University’s AB ’60, PhD ’66 Richard Ekman, AB ’66, PhD ’72, history of American Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Governed by its The editor-in-chief of Science is a passionate civilization Council, the GSAA represents and advances the interests Yonatan Eyal, PhD ‘05, history advocate for improving science education locally of alumni of the Graduate School by sponsoring alumni John C.C. Fan, SM ’67, PhD ’72, applied sciences events and by publishing Colloquy four times each year. and globally. Kenneth Froewiss, AB ’67, PhD ’77, economics Homer Hagedorn, PhD ’55, history, ex officio Graduate School Alumni Association R. Stanton Hales, PhD ’70, mathematics The 2011 Centennial Medals Holyoke Center 350 10 David Harnett, PhD ’70, history 1350 Massachusetts Avenue The Graduate School’s highest alumni honor goes George Heilborn, AM ’58, physics Cambridge, MA 02138-3846 to Fields Medal–winning mathematician Heisuke Karen J. Hladik, PhD ’84, business economics phone: 617-495-5591 • fax: 617-495-2928 Daniel R. Johnson, AM ’82, East Asian history, AM ’84, [email protected] • www.gsas.harvard.edu Hironaka, PhD ’60; space scientist and former business economics Gopal Kadagathur NASA astronaut Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, PhD ’71; , PhD ’69, applied sciences Colloquy on the Web former Stanford president Richard Wall Lyman, Alan Kantrow, AB ’69, PhD ’79, history of American civilization Access current and back issues of Colloquy, as well as Gyuri Karady, PhD ’80, applied sciences PhD ’54; and trailblazing American historian Nell a range of other alumni services and information, at Imad Kordab, PhD ‘09, applied sciences www.gsas.harvard.edu/alumni. Irvin Painter, PhD ’74. Robert E. Knight, PhD ’68, economics Felipe Larraín, PhD ’85, economics, ex officio Letters to the Editor Jill Levenson, PhD ’67, English and American literature and language Alumni Books Colloquy does not print letters, but we welcome your 14 See-Yan Lin, MPA ’70, PhD ’77, economics thoughts and story ideas. Write to: Colloquy, Harvard GSAS authors tackle the politics of FDR, a Abraham Lowenthal, AB ‘61, MPA ‘64, PhD ‘71, government University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Holyoke worrying trend in pharmaceuticals, the insurgency Suzanne Folds McCullagh, PhD ’81, fine arts Center 350, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA John J. Moon, AB ’89, PhD ’94, business economics 02138-3846; or e-mail [email protected]. in Chechnya, and the music of Leon Kirchner, Sandra O. Moose, PhD ’68, economics among other typically diverse topics. F. Robert Naka, SD ’51, applied sciences Moving? Betsy M. Ohlsson-Wilhelm, AB ’63, PhD ’69, medical sciences Please send your Colloquy mailing label and your new Maury Peiperl, MBA ’86, PhD ’94, organizational behavior Harvard Is . I Choose Harvard address to Alumni Records, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, 4th M. Lee Pelton, PhD ’84, English and American literature Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138-3654. 17 How the Department of Statistics became a and language model for outstanding graduate student teaching Nancy Ramage, PhD ’69, classical archaeology, ex officio Colloquy is printed by PrintResource/DS Graphics. John E. Rielly, PhD ’61, government at Harvard. Allen Sangínes-Krause, PhD ’87, economics; chair Sidney Spielvogel, AM ’46, economics, MBA ’49, ex officio David Staines, PhD ’73, English and American literature and language Marianne Steiner, MEN ’78, SM ’78, applied mathematics Donald van Deventer, PhD ’77, economics Lee Zhang, AM ’01, medical sciences Gustavus Zimmerman, PhD ’80, physics On the cover: Jeffrey Schnapp, professor of romance languages and literatures and of comparative literature, is the founding director of metaLAB at Harvard. Photograph by Charles Gauthier. Colloquy 1 Fall / Winter 2011 from the dean Colloquy Allan M. Brandt ALUMNI QUARTERLY Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine, Harvard Building a Diverse Medical School; professor of the history of science, Allan M. Brandt Harvard Alumni Association PhD Program Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Appointed Directors David Staines • Daniel R. Johnson Margot N. Gill administrative dean GSAA Council Ex Officio Over the last year, the Graduate School has matriculate (compared with 29 students, or Drew Gilpin Faust rewritten the playbook for building a diverse less than 50 percent of those admitted, last Elisabeth Nuñez president of Harvard University director of publications and alumni relations Michael D. Smith PhD program at Harvard — and the early year). As a result, nearly 6.5 percent of the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences results suggest that the new approaches may 2011–12 class comes from underrepresented Bari Walsh Allan M. Brandt form the foundations of significant change. minority groups, compared with a typical editor dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Margot N. Gill Beginning with the appointment of Sheila year’s 5 percent. Sametz Blackstone Associates administrative dean of the Graduate School of Thomas as Assistant Dean for Diversity and The numbers, on their face, are mod- design Arts and Sciences Minority Affairs in the summer of 2010, I est, and they speak to the complexity of Michael Shinagel Graduate School Alumni Association PhD ’64, English and American literature and language, and other members of our top administrative the task at hand. Many talented minor- (GSAA) Council dean of Continuing Education and University Extension team renewed our commitment to enrolling ity students are drawn to professional Naomi André, PhD ’96, music John P. Reardon Jr. a class of PhD candidates that reflects the graduate programs; others, from the elite Reinier Beeuwkes, COL ’62, PhD ’70, division of medical sciences AB ’60 Thomas Davenport, PhD ’80, sociology executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association diversity of our nation and our world. We undergraduate institutions, form a rela- Mia de Kuijper, MPA ’83, PhD ’83, economics worked proactively with key departments tively small pool that is recruited intent- Stacy Dick, AB ’78, PhD ’83, economics to raise their awareness of strategies they ly by peer institutions. Still others come A. Barr Dolan, AM ’74, applied sciences The GSAA is the alumni association of Harvard University’s Richard Ekman, AB ’66, PhD ’72, history of American Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Governed by its might employ to identify and recruit talented from undergraduate institutions often over- civilization Council, the GSAA represents and advances the interests minority candidates. looked by standard admissions processes. Yonatan Eyal, PhD ‘05, history of alumni of the Graduate School by sponsoring alumni As the 2011–2012 admissions cycle We know that to truly diversify our PhD John C.C. Fan, SM ’67, PhD ’72, applied sciences events and by publishing Colloquy four times each year. Kenneth Froewiss, AB ’67, PhD ’77, economics was in full swing, I asked committees in programs, we must open the pipeline, enlarge Homer Hagedorn, PhD ’55, history, ex officio Graduate School Alumni Association the departments to discuss the best minor- the pool, and encourage smart, ambitious R. Stanton Hales, PhD ’70, mathematics Holyoke Center 350 ity candidates in their applicant pool. These students to choose Harvard University. And David Harnett, PhD ’70, history 1350 Massachusetts Avenue George Heilborn, AM ’58, physics Cambridge, MA 02138-3846 conversations proved a useful exercise for we must act vigorously to show those stu- Karen J. Hladik, PhD ’84, business economics phone: 617-495-5591 • fax: 617-495-2928 identifying critical aspects of the admissions dents that there is a place for them here. Daniel R. Johnson, AM ’82, East Asian history, AM ’84, [email protected] • www.gsas.harvard.edu