Overseers’ Leaders and recreation, overseeing 20 intercolle- R. Martin Chávez ’85, S.M. ’85, has been giate sports and more than 40 club sports. elected president of the Board of Over- Brevia For further information, see harvardmag. seers for the 2020-2021 academic year, and com/mcdermott-ad-20. Beth Karlan ’78, M.D. ’82, will serve as vice Humanities chair of the executive Transition committee. Chávez, Porter professor of a computer scientist, Medieval Latin Jan served as co-head of Ziolkowski, who has the securities division, served as director of chief financial officer, Dumbarton Oaks, in and chief information Washington, D.C., officer of Goldman since 2007, will step Sachs, where he re- down on July 1, and mains a senior direc- will serve as a mem- tor. Karlan is profes- ber of the Institute sor of obstetrics and for Advanced Study gynecology at UCLA’s at Princeton. Thom- Geffen School of Med- as B.F. Cummins, icine, and directs the Dumbarton Oaks pro- cancer population ge- fessor of the history of netics program at the Pre-Columbian and university’s cancer colonial art, will serve center. They succeed Michael Brown ’83, CLASS DAY CREATIVITY. On as interim director. During Ziolkowski’s J.D. ’88, and Lesley Friedman Rosenthal Wednesday afternoon, May 27, tenure, Dumbarton Oaks undertook signifi- M.Arch. candidates from the ’86, J.D. ’89, respectively. Design School who were still in town cant physical renovations to accommodate arranged themselves on the and house its academic fellows and interns, Dental Dean (otherwise deserted) Widener steps enabling it to increase the number of fellows William V. Giannobile, D.M.Sc.-S.D.M. for an impromptu class photo: the by 25 percent—at a time when humanities first with social-distancing strictly ’96, has been appointed dean of the Har- observed, and everyone properly positions have dwindled nationwide. He vard School of Dental Medicine, succeed- face-masked. The idea was Jessica also established undergraduate and gradu- ing Bruce Donoff, who Lim’s (front and center, in green). ate residencies and internships, built ties concluded 28 years of to local public schools, enhanced access to service at the end of 2019. dean designate and professor of landscape the collections, and launched the Dumbar- The new dean, an expert architecture Niall Kirkwood continuing ton Oaks Medieval Library, now number- in periodontology and as associate dean for academic affairs. ing more than 60 volumes (see “Mysteries oral regenerative medi- Details are available at harvardmag.com/ and Masterpieces,” January-February 2012, COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY cine, returns to Long- gsd-dean-leave-20. page 48). William V. wood September 1 from Giannobile the University of Michi- Athletics Director Economist’s Global Reach gan School of Dentistry, Erin McDermott has been appointed Zombanakis professor of the international where he has been Najjar Endowed Pro- Nichols Family director of athletics, effec- financial systemCarmen M. Reinhart, who fessor. Read more at harvardmag.com/ tive July 1, succeeding Robert A. Scalise, joined the Kennedy School faculty in 2012, giannobile-hsdm-20. who had announced his retirement after has been appointed chief economist of the 19 years in the position. McDermott, who World Bank, effective June 15. She assumes Design Dean’s “Step Back” was captain of the women’s basketball the post at a time of unprecedented tur- Graduate School of Design dean Sarah team at Hofstra, has pre- moil in parts of the global financial system, Whiting, at her post only since last July, viously held sports-man- and of worldwide recession stemming from told her colleagues that she had been di- agement positions at Co- the coronavirus pandemic—with especially agnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. lumbia, Princeton (where dire threats to developing nations. She is Her April 6 message to the community she was deputy director best known to the public as coauthor, with said that she would take “a partial step of athletics), and, most Cabot professor of public policy Kenneth S. back” from daily responsibilities to begin recently, at the Universi- MITCHELL/HPAC STEPHANIE Rogoff, of This Time is Different: Eight Centuries treatment, with professor of urban design ty of Chicago, where she Erin of Financial Folly (see “Dealing with Debt,” and planning Rahul Mehrotra serving as was director of athletics McDermott July-August 2015, page 10). Photograph courtesy of Jessica Lim Harvard Magazine 25 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 JOHN HARVARD'S JOURNAL Sexual-Misconduct Rules organismic and evolutionary biology and The U.S. Department of Education in May of molecular and cellular biology; David promulgated new regulations governing S. Jones, Ackerman professor of the cul- how colleges handle sexual-assault and ture of medicine; and James Robson, Kralik -harassment allegations. The regulations and Lou professor of East Asian languages narrow the scope of complaints that must and civilizations. The complete list of hon- be investigated; require that live hearings orands appears as a sidebar to harvardmag. be held; and allow cross-examination dur- com/remote-fasmtg-may-20. ing adjudication of complaints. Proponents say the new regimen restores fairness to Nota Bene a process that has unfairly disadvantaged Old museum made new. The Harvard Se- ACCLAIMED GARDEN. During those accused of sexual misconduct; crit- mitic Museum, established in 1889, has be- National Public Gardens Week, in May, the U.S. Postal Service released an ics say that it will discourage victims from come the Harvard Museum of the An- American Gardens series of stamps, registering complaints. The rules take ef- cient Near East, announced director Peter featuring Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard’s fect August 14. In a statement, President Der Manuelian, who is Bell professor of Washington, D.C., center for Byzan- Lawrence S. Bacow noted that during the Egyptology (see harvardmag.com/near tine, Pre-Columbian, and garden and - landscape studies (see “Home of the rulemaking process, Harvard, through east-museum-stela-17). The rebranding is Humanities,” May-June 2008, page 48). higher-education associations, had com- meant to explain the holdings and scholar- Other featured gardens include those mented on “various aspects of the proposed ly purposes more accurately, he explained. at the Biltmore Estate, at Winterthur, changes, including areas that we believed and at The Huntington. might limit our ability to provide a safe and Pulitzer pair. Colson Whitehead ’91, welcoming environment on our campus.” winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for his Now, he said, the University would “ex- novel The Underground Railroad, repeated the thia Dwork, assistant professor of educa- plore any changes needed to adhere to cur- feat for his newest work, The Nickel Boys. tion Jarvis R. Givens, professor of health rent federal and state law.” (He was profiled in “A Literary Chame- policy David Hemenway, Burbank profes- leon,” September-October 2016, page 32, sor of political economy Torben Iversen, National Academicians reported by Jesse McCarthy, now assistant assistant professor of art history Shawon Eight faculty members have been elected professor of English and of African and Af- Kinew, professor of studies of women, members of the National Academy of Sci- rican American studies). Jericho Brown, gender, and sexuality and of African and ences: Dennis Gaitsgory, Smith professor a Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 2009-2010, African American studies Robert F. Re- of mathematics; Joel F. Habener, professor won the Pulitzer in poetry for The Tradition. id-Pharr, The Custodian of the Two Holy of medicine; Michael Kremer, Gates pro- Mosques professor of Islamic legal studies fessor of developing societies (who shared A community coronavirus casualty. Alfred Kristen A. Stilt, and Robinson professor of the Nobel honor for economics last year); “Fred” Joseph Iannacone Jr., proprietor mathematics Lauren K. Williams. Further Judy Lieberman, professor of pediatrics; of the Central Barber Shop, on Massachu- details are available at harvardmag.com/ Margaret S. Livingstone, Takeda profes- setts Avenue hard by Harvard Law School rias-fellows-20. sor of neurobiology; Olivier Pourquié, and much of the engineering and applied Mallory professor of pathology; Wilfried sciences faculty, died April 20, at age 78, Miscellany. The College has appointed Schmid, Robinson research professor of from COVID-19. He ran the shop for more Sheehan Scarborough ’07, M.Div. ’14, se- mathematics; and Suzanne Walker, pro- than 50 years, according to family members’ nior director of the Harvard Foundation, to fessor of microbiology. account. Tarr Family professor of bioengi- succeed the late S. Allen Counter. Scarbor- neering and applied physics Kit Parker re- ough has been director of BGLTQ student Top Teachers called, “Back when I had hair…Fred used to life since 2016.…Leah Rosovsky ’78, M.B.A. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences conferred cut my hair.” The shop, he said, was central ’84, Harvard’s vice president for strategies its awards for teaching and mentorship dur- to the small businesses that serve the Har- and programs from 2013 to 2019, has been ing the final regular faculty meeting of the vard community—and “Fred was a really appointed the seventeenth director of the year, on May 5. Five-year Harvard College good dude among all of them.” Boston Athenaeum, the 213-year-old library, Professorships—for distinguished under- archive, museum, and reading room.…The graduate teaching and advising, and gradu- Radcliffe’s Virtual Fellows. The Rad- Manhattan Institute has conferred its ate education (and accompanied by support cliffe Institute for Advanced Study has Hayek Book Prize on the late Alberto Ale- for research and a semester of paid leave or announced its 42 fellows for the 2020-2021 sina, Ropes professor of political economy, summer salary)—were bestowed on: Katia academic year.