Maya R. Jasanoff: Harvard Move Is a Homecoming for British Historian; Provost Is Back at Ave Maria, but Not as Provost
When Maya R. Jasanoff returns to Harvard University, her alma mater, as an associate professor of British history this July, she'll be enriching a family tradition. The Jasanoff family has eight degrees from Harvard among them and strong ties to Cambridge, Mass.: Ms. Jasanoff's parents are also Harvard professors and her brother, Alan P. Jasanoff (Class of 92), is an assistant professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"I was looking to move to the Northeast, though I really had no expectation that this job would become available," says Ms. Jasanoff (Class of 96). Both the job and the prospect of "home-cooked meals" with her family and her brother's family were irresistible, she says.
Ms. Jasanoff has taken a circuitous route back to the neighborhood: M.Phil. at Cambridge University, Ph.D. at Yale University, a post-doc at the Michigan Society of Fellows, and the last few years as an assistant professor at the University of Virginia.
At Cambridge and Yale, she began doing research for her first book, Edge of Empire, a look at British collectors of Eastern antiquities, which won the prestigious Duff Cooper Prize for 2005. She's now working on a new book about the British Loyalists who left the former colonies for Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, and South Asia after the American Revolution.
In 1998 Ms. Jasanoff's mother, Sheila S. Jasanoff (Class of 64), joined the John F. Kennedy School of Government as a professor of science and public policy, and her father, Jay H. Jasanoff (Class of 62), joined the faculty of arts and sciences as a professor of linguistics. The two are surprised and pleased that academe has brought the family together again. "The odds are so profoundly against it," says the materfamilias.
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"I was looking to move to the Northeast, though I really had no expectation that this job would become available," says Ms. Jasanoff (Class of 96). Both the job and the prospect of "home-cooked meals" with her family and her brother's family were irresistible, she says.
Ms. Jasanoff has taken a circuitous route back to the neighborhood: M.Phil. at Cambridge University, Ph.D. at Yale University, a post-doc at the Michigan Society of Fellows, and the last few years as an assistant professor at the University of Virginia.
At Cambridge and Yale, she began doing research for her first book, Edge of Empire, a look at British collectors of Eastern antiquities, which won the prestigious Duff Cooper Prize for 2005. She's now working on a new book about the British Loyalists who left the former colonies for Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, and South Asia after the American Revolution.
In 1998 Ms. Jasanoff's mother, Sheila S. Jasanoff (Class of 64), joined the John F. Kennedy School of Government as a professor of science and public policy, and her father, Jay H. Jasanoff (Class of 62), joined the faculty of arts and sciences as a professor of linguistics. The two are surprised and pleased that academe has brought the family together again. "The odds are so profoundly against it," says the materfamilias.