Based on ten years of research through archives, letters, and diaries, and on interviews with friends and relatives, this insightful biography includes intricate details about Earhart's career and her … "[23] In The Hindu, Sudipta Datta wrote that Jasanoff's approach to Conrad makes for a "remarkable retelling of Joseph Conrad's life and work and its resonance with the present dysfunctional world. Editor’s Note: ‘The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World’ by Maya Jasanoff was published by Penguin Press, New York, 2017. Jasanoff’s husband and daughter are both professors at the College, and many members of her immediate family attended the College. "[5] However, in The American Historical Review, University of Pennsylvania English professor Suvir Kaul said Jasanoff's history of "objects and individuals, no matter how lovingly recollected, do not add up to an argument that historians should think of empire as instantiating 'the essential humanity of successful international relationships'," and underestimate the "concerns of those peoples who were at the receiving end of imperial power, whether that power was exerted by Europeans or by the native elites who functioned increasingly at their command. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Thiong'O wrote that Jasanoff succeeded where "An Image of Africa: Racism in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness," Chinua Achebe's classic Conrad essay, had failed, specifically in bringing into clear relief "Conrad's ability to capture the hypocrisy of the 'civilizing mission' and the material interests that drove capitalist empires, crushing the human spirit." Laddas ned direkt. "[20] In the judgment of the Financial Times: "This is an unobtrusively skilful, subtle, clear-eyed book, beautifully narrated," [21] while the Literary Review observes: "Written with a novelist's flair for vivid detail and a scholar's attention to texts, The Dawn Watch is by any standard a major contribution to our understanding of Conrad and his time. I had meant to be reviewing Nostromo, Joseph Conrad’s twenty-four-players-without-a-scorecard novel set in Costaguana, a fictional country in South America. German universities at the time were still recovering from wartime losses, and studying chemistry in particular turned out to be a bleak prospect, even without the added complications of youth, gender, a new language, and ethnic otherness. Knopf. The fifth, who lives in Cambridge too but is not (yet?) Maya Jasanoff is an associate professor at Harvard University, and the author of Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East (2005). Now Maya Jasanoff, another Harvard historian, offers a different kind of sympathetic account of the loyalists. The underlying root is the Slavic word for "ash tree" (Late Common Slavic *jasenĭ, Russ. Unlike most Indo-Europeanists, I did not start out as a classicist or any other kind of "language person." by Maya Jasanoff ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 7, 2017. ... and lead into the future,” wrote wife to husband as he made his revolutionary plans. ... With her characteristic candor and dry wit, she recounts the story of her fateful meeting with her future husband. She was educated at Harvard College before studying for a master's degree at Cambridge, where she worked with Christopher Bayly. Maya Jasanoff website Many call Rudyard Kipling the scribe of the British Empire, but novelist Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) may have best rendered its waning years and foreshadowed its demise. and Nancy Yang Professor of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. Leaving her journalist husband in Delhi, the woman sets off on a series of sexual and spiritual adventures, exulting in the sense of freedom and discovery. "[27], As part of the project, Jasanoff blogged a journey on a cargo ship sailing from China to Europe. She came to the US in 1923 and spoke native Yiddish, Hungarian (eventually lost), and English. Maya Jasanoff is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard.She is the author of the prize-winning Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 (2005) and Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (2011), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction and the George Washington Book Prize.A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Jasanoff won the … The tragedy of Lord Jim was that what passed for “civilization” was coming for Patusan. It has made me want to re-establish connections with the Conrad whose written sentences once inspired in me the same joy as a musical phrase. The steamship edged out the sailing ship. Early life and education. After getting a Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard like me, Sheila went on to law school and became a pioneer in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). [12][13] In The New York Times, Thomas Bender called it a "richly informative account," "smart, deeply researched and elegantly written. But unlike most of the others, I had also been inspired earlier that year by a different teacher — Calvert Watkins, whose "Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin" I had taken as a lark on the strength of my self-taught Greek and two years of high school Latin. Our two children, Alan Jasanoff (b. I was born in New York, as was my father. Now Maya Jasanoff is a tenured Humanities Professor at Harvard, and you can't get deeper into the PC/feminist fever-swamp than that. Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later 18th Century by Sarah Pearsall. She serves as Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University, where she focuses on the history of Britain and the British Empire. "[14], Jasanoff's 2017 book, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World,[15] published by Penguin Press[16] and in the UK by William Collins[17] centers on the life and times of novelist Joseph Conrad. In the London Review of Books, UCLA history and political science professor Anthony Pagden called the work a "brilliant contribution" to the historical investigation of the complexities of empire;[4] in The Guardian, Richard Gott called it "a riveting and original book. [29] In a letter to the editor, Boston University professor Timothy Longman said the essay "reeks of condescension" and "continues the widespread practice of ignoring the voices of Congolese intellectuals, many of whom write about their homeland with nuance. Maya Jasanoff is the X.D. But their numbers would be dwarfed over the following years, as historian Maya Jasanoff recounts in “Liberty’s Exiles,’’ her masterful account of the dispersal of the Loyalists. Well, you could, actually. Conrad wrote stories and … Her latest book is The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World . It is also wh Hypocrisy, selfishness, and greed triumphed over honesty and hard work. The book is called The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. She earned her Ph.D. at Yale with Linda Colley, completing the thesis "French and British imperial collecting in Egypt and India, 1780-1820" (Yale, 2002). Judith L. Van Buskirk, Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 175-176; Jasanoff, Liberty’s Exiles , 91. And as one learns from the Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff’s new book, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, Conrad was a hero to William Faulkner, André Gide, and Thomas Mann. And ipso facto, you couldn’t find anyone anywhere more opposed to the likes of sati. By Maya Jasanoff I need to admit something right up front. She chaired the … We were college classmates, although we didn't know each other as undergraduates. In the fall of 1963 I went to Bonn, Germany, on a Fulbright Fellowship, theoretically to learn more about machine translation, but in fact to reflect on whether I wanted to go to MIT for a Ph.D. in linguistic theory (which in my case would probably have meant phonology) or to Harvard for a Ph.D. in historical linguistics. "'The Dawn Watch,' Thiong'O wrote, "will become a creative companion to all students of his work. She moved to Bombay in 1954 with her family, where she lived for two years before moving to the United States.. Jasanoff attended Radcliffe College, where she studied mathematics as an undergraduate, receiving her bachelor's degree in 1964.She then studied linguistics, receiving her M.A. Other academic people in my extended family are Sheila's brother, Shankar Sen, a professor of mathematics at Cornell, and Luba's father, Victor Kac, a professor of mathematics at MIT. Felix Kloman. 1974) are academics too. He’s explored how we as human beings and organizations respond to ever-present uncertainty in two … Wife Sheila Sen Jasanoff ’64, Ph.D. ’73, J.D. ; Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, 2011, etc. Maya Jasanoff. E-bok, 2012. [1], Jasanoff published her first book, Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850, with Alfred A. Knopf in 2005 and received mostly favorable reviews. We met in 1963 at a foreign students' evening (Ausländerabend) in Bonn, where both of us had independently wound up after graduation. Beloved husband of Edith, dear father of Jay and Joan, loving grandfather of Alan and Maya Jasanoff and Emily and Julie Reyna. She earned her Ph.D. at Yale with Linda Colley, completing the thesis "French and British imperial collecting in Egypt and India, 1780-1820" (Yale, 2002). In the spring term of my senior year I cross-registered in Chomsky's famous three-hour class, where he was expounding what would soon be known as the "Aspects" model. (July 2020) [3], Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard, Jasanoff was a fellow at the University of Michigan, through its Society of Fellows, after which she taught at the University of Virginia. Writing in the current issue of the New York Review Of Books she has this to say. "[22] Reviewing the book in The Guardian, Patrick French began: "The Dawn Watch will win prizes, and if it doesn't, there is something wrong with the prizes. My father's parents immigrated to the US in the first decade of the twentieth century from the vicinity of Bialystok, now in Poland. I did, however, find language and languages interesting, and as an undergraduate at Harvard made a late and hesitant decision to major in Linguistics and Mathematics. and Nancy Yang Professor of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. In 1857, the year of his birth, Poland did not fully exist. ... Nina, a beauty for whom he intends a … Download East to the Dawn Books now!Available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Jasanoff was born in Kolkata, and lived in Ballygunge with her family. Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on WhatsApp Email Print 2602 words. Around the turn of the last century, Conrad’s books portrayed terrorism in Europe, limned the reach of multinational corporations, and foresaw patterns of globalization that became clear only a … What’s more, “He has turned up in the pages of Latin American writers from Jorge Luis Borges to Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Maya Jasanoff is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard.She is the author of the prize-winning Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 (2005) and Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (2011), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction and the George Washington Book Prize. She was educated at Harvard College before studying for a master's degree at Cambridge, where she worked with Christopher Bayly. Leaving her journalist husband in Delhi, the woman sets off on a series of sexual and spiritual adventures, exulting in the sense of freedom and discovery. a professor, is Alan's daughter, our granddaughter Nina (b. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization. She recently completed a book on the life and times of Joseph Conrad as the first author of globalization. Maya Jasanoff website Many call Rudyard Kipling the scribe of the British Empire, but novelist Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) may have best rendered its waning years and foreshadowed its demise. 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Yet the same single-mindedness in a woman … [7], Jasanoff published Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World in 2011, also with Alfred A. Our online member directory allows visitors to view members’ profiles, their latest website/blog posts and links to their Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads accounts. “History sits heavily on some backs,” Maya Jasanoff observes in The Dawn Watch, and Joseph Conrad’s origins are particularly gloomy. [6] Similarly in The New York Times, Columbia University history professor Mark Mazower found "a high degree of wishful thinking" in Jasanoff's casting 18th- and early 19th-century empire as less asymmetrical domination and more "the kind of happy cross-cultural fusion that we dream about today". “History sits heavily on some backs,” Maya Jasanoff observes in The Dawn Watch, and Joseph Conrad’s origins are particularly gloomy. Maya Jasanoff has traveled in 70 countries, the 70th being the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which she visited last year to do research for her new book, “The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World.” Along with re-tracing Conrad’s adventures along the Congo River, the Coolidge Professor of History spent four weeks aboard a French cargo ship, sailing between China and northern Europe in a … Pris: 129 kr. Maya Jasanoff is Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University and resident faculty at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. An absorbing biography melds history and literary analysis. After immersing myself in Gothic and Sanskrit for a few months I decided for historical linguistics — not the choice most people would have made at the time, but certainly the right one for me. [44] This meant "mathematical linguistics," as it was called in the early sixties — a catch-all category that included (among other things) machine translation, glottochronology, and the new "generative" approach being taught down the river at MIT by Noam Chomsky. The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World (Penguin Press, 2017) examines the dynamics of modern globalization through the life and times of the novelist Joseph Conrad. Maya Jasanoff is Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University and resident faculty at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. and Nancy Yang Professor of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. are more common. An absorbing biography melds history and literary analysis. [32], In 2005, Jasanoff won the Duff Cooper Prize for Edge of Empire. "[26] In The New York Times, Ngugi wa Thiong'O applauded the book as "masterful." “Deeply contextualized, dexterously researched, and judiciously written, this deserves to become the landmark biography of the early Gandhi.” —Maya Jasanoff, New Republic “Fascinating. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish: [ˈjuzɛf tɛˈɔdɔr ˈkɔnrat kɔʐɛˈɲɔfskʲi] (); 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Funeral service on Tuesday 1PM, … So it was an apt city to serve as the final home of a man regarded as one of the most unreal, isolated and timeless figures of the Victorian era. She was a member of the AAAS‑ABA National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists (1985‑91) and the Board of Directors of AAAS (1996‑2000). I had meant to be reviewing Nostromo, Joseph Conrad’s twenty-four-players-without-a-scorecard novel set in Costaguana, a fictional country in South America.Two hundred impenetrable pages in, with three hundred more to go, I took a break to browse in a bookstore. She is currently Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her latest book is The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World . • For LaRose (Harper Collins), Louise Erdrich was … Historian Maya Jasanoff estimated how many Loyalists departed the U.S. for British North America. Lord Of The Dawn. Biography, history, politics, science, business or purely imaginative fiction—there is something for everyone in this round-up of the year's best books Alan is a neuroscientist at MIT, with a primary appointment in the Department of Biological Engineering. Communities fractured. Fast Download speed and ads Free! . Books of the year 2005 Peerless pages. Today – I love the enigmatic, beautiful short stories of Alice Munro, the mingling of fact and fiction in the nonfiction of Ryszard Kapuscinski. The first visit I made to Calcutta that I can remember was over Christmas in 1981. [43]). 2005). Her latest book is The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World . But their numbers would be dwarfed over the following years, as historian Maya Jasanoff recounts in “Liberty’s Exiles,’’ her masterful account of the dispersal of the Loyalists. Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and Maya Jasanoff received a Windham-Campbell Prize in Nonfiction – both awards facilitated by Yale University. Her husband Mick, with whom she’s not lived for some time, gave … Her story begins in Revolutionary America before 1783. • Adam Haslett’s Imagine Me Gone (Little Brown) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Köp Heart of Darkness av Joseph Conrad, Adam Hochschild, Maya Jasanoff, Timothy Hayes på Bokus.com. "[24] In The Guardian, William Dalrymple named the book to his list of best holiday reads of 2017. 1970) and Maya Jasanoff (b. Maya is a historian at Harvard. . Her parents, Sheila and Jay Jasanoff, are both Harvard professors, and her brother Alan is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. . Get Free Lord Of The Dawn Textbook and unlimited access to our library by created an account. I don't come from an academic family, though I have been told that my maternal grandfather, whom I never knew, was a \"scholar\" — no doubt a Talmudic scholar. By Maya Jasanoff I need to admit something right up front. I was seven. (July 2020) Liberty's Exiles was widely and favorably reviewed. 1.9m Followers, 997 Following, 1,613 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Maya Jama (@mayajama) Maya Jasanoff was born in 1974 to an Indian mother and an American father, and was raised in Ithaca, in upstate New York. jasen´, Pol. Her parents, Sheila and Jay Jasanoff, are both Harvard professors, and her brother Alan is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Download East to the Dawn Books now!Available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Online version is titled "Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the art of ambivalence". Maya Jasanoff is the X.D. Maya Jasanoff On November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: these forces shaped Joseph Conrad’s destiny at the dawn of the twentieth century. I admire and envy the gifts of many contemporary writers: I have just been reading Maya Jasanoff’s ’s Dawn Watch and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fires, which are … Maya R. Jasanoff ’96 might be in exactly the same place she was just over ten years ago, but she’s certainly come a long way. The Dawn Watch by Maya Jasanoff – Joseph Conrad in world history This brilliant study blends biography, lit crit and commentary on our times. [25] According to the Wall Street Journal's reviewer, "'The Dawn Watch' is the most vivid and suggestive biography of Conrad ever written. Maya Jasanoff was born in 1974 to an Indian mother and an American father, and was raised in Ithaca, in upstate New York. Maya Jasanoff, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011), 85-91. "[30], The Dawn Watch was discussed on Andrew Marr's Start the Week program on 6 November 2017. jesion). Jasanoff has held numerous offices in the Society for Social Studies of Science, including President (1999-2001). She recently completed a book on the life and times of Joseph Conrad as the first author of globalization. Oxford, 294 pp., £61, November 2008, 978 0 19 953299 5 Show More. Jasanoff grew up in Ithaca, New York and comes from a family of academics. ... Grace’s husband, Joseph, a … The Dawn Watch by Maya Jasanoff – Joseph Conrad in world history. A book entitled East to the Dawn written by Susan Butler, published by Da Capo Press which was released on 11 August 2009. Four of the world's five living Jasanoffs are thus professors in Cambridge, Mass. Once they were officially a couple, her feelings for him turned into a “toppling blast of lust, gratitude, fulfillment, wonder.” But for someone with a “natural resistance to … She calculates 60,000 in total, including about 50,000 whites (Wallace Brown cites about 80,000 Loyalists in total permanently left the United States. [38], Critical studies and reviews of Jasanoff's work. Early life. Maya R. Jasanoff ’96 might be in exactly the same place she was just over ten years ago, but she’s certainly come a long way. Felix Kloman About the Author: Felix Kloman is a sailor, rower, husband, father, grandfather, retired management consultant and, above all, a curious reader and writer. About the Author: Felix Kloman is a sailor, rower, husband, father, grandfather, retired management consultant and, above all, a curious reader and writer. [33] She won both the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction[34] and 2012 George Washington Book Prize[35] for Liberty's Exiles. English is my only native language. at the University of Bonn … [8][9][10][11] The book describes the trajectories of the approximately 60,000 loyalists who fled the American Revolution to relocate in other parts of the British Empire; some 8,000 of those who elected to relocate were free black people, but 15,000 enslaved people of African descent were also forcibly moved when their owners chose to go. Maya Jasanoff is the X.D. A book entitled East to the Dawn written by Susan Butler, published by Da Capo Press which was released on 11 August 2009. We met in 1963 at a foreign students' evening (Ausländerabend) in Bonn, where both of us had independently wound up after graduation. [18] The Times lauded the book as the "Conrad for our time,"[19] and The Spectator called her an "enviably gifted writer....her historian's eye can untie knots that might baffle the pure critic," noting that she "steers us securely and stylishly through those latitudes where Conrad witnessed the future scupper the past. I have been married to my wife, Sheila Sen Jasanoff, who came to the US from India in the fifties, since 1968. I have been married to my wife, Sheila Sen Jasanoff, who came to the US from India in the fifties, since 1968. "A passage from India : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the art of ambivalence", "Maya Jasanoff's "Liberty's Exiles," on British Loyalists after the revolution", "Liberty's Exiles by Maya Jasanoff: Review", "Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire by Maya Jasanoff: review", "Book Review - Liberty's Exiles - By Maya Jasanoff", "Nonfiction Book Review: The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya Jasanoff. She has been a member of the Kuratorium of the University of Bielefeld and adviser to the UK’s Science in Society program. [31] It was BBC Radio Four's Book of the Week. In 1857, the year of his birth, Poland did not fully exist. Maya Jasanoff’s teaching and research extend from the history of the British Empire to global history. She is the author of three prize-winning books. ... Grace’s husband, Joseph, a prominent Pennsylvania politician, had been a delegate to the first Continental Congress, convened in 1774 to … She might not have known how to spell it, but she certainly knew what crisis felt like when she wrote about it in wartime Philadelphia in the fall of 1781. Maya Jasanoff, a history professor at Harvard University, has won a $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction. Collecting was a means of self-fashioning’.6 Fanny’s enthusiasms appear in her own account so The same people don’t blame Nek, Gayatri’s husband, for leaving too. [37], Jasanoff won the 2018 Cundill History Prize valued at $75,000 for The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. I don't come from an academic family, though I have been told that my maternal grandfather, whom I never knew, was a "scholar" — no doubt a Talmudic scholar. Historian Maya Jasanoff argues that collectors ‘shared one crucial characteristic: all of them used objects to advertise, hone or shape their social personae. [1], Jasanoff grew up in Ithaca, New York and comes from a family of academics. Near Bialystok is a town called Jasionówka (in Yiddish, Yashinuvka), which I presume is the source of the name "Jasanoff" (now pronounced with J- as in Jerry).1 My mother (née Deutsch) was born in what was then Máramarossziget, Hungary, and is now Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania (Transylvania). There, I met my future husband, Jay Jasanoff, and first learned of the field of Linguistics – in which he had concentrated as a Harvard undergraduate. Beloved husband of Edith, dear father of Jay and Joan, loving grandfather of Alan and Maya Jasanoff and Emily and Julie Reyna. ¹ The second -a- in "Jasanoff" is a non-etymological spelling of English [ə] and is confined to my immediate family; spellings like "Jassenoff," "Jasenof," etc. In India particularly, the tradition of valorising men for putting spiritual or scholarly or political pursuits over wife and family is very strong – such men are revered as monastic and single-minded. Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later 18th Century by Sarah Pearsall. It had been exactly twenty-five years since my grandfather Sudhir had taken a job at the United Nations, moving my grandmother and their three children from India to New York. But his more novel and arguably greater achievement lies in the way he places the company's rise in the turbulent political landscape of late Mughal India -- Maya Jasanoff * Guardian * A tour de force ***** -- Anne de Courcy * Telegraph * Dalrymple has been at the forefront of the new wave of popular history, consistently producing work that engages with a wider audience through writerly craft, … Our daughter-in-law, Luba Katz, holds a Ph.D. in genetics and works as a science policy consultant. We were college classmates, although we didn't know each other as undergraduates. Maya Jasanoff. Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on WhatsApp Email Print 2602 words. Her parents, Sheila and Jay Jasanoff, are both Harvard professors, and her brother Alan is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jasanoff grew up in Ithaca, New York and comes from a family of academics. Two hundred impenetrable pages in, with three hundred more to go, I took a break to browse in a bookstore. From The Paper (7) Inky Scraps: ‘Atlantic Families’ Maya Jasanoff, 5 August 2010 ‘Crisses Cryssis Crises Crisis’, Grace Galloway scratched at the bottom of the page. [2] She was educated at Harvard College before studying for a master's degree at Cambridge, where she worked with Christopher Bayly. They had left India expecting to return, but now all five were non-resident Indians with American lives who emerged every few years onto the … She specializes in the history of the British Empire. Maya R. Jasanoff is an American academic. ’76, is now Pforzheimer professor of science and technology studies at the Kennedy School; their daughter, Maya Jasanoff ’96, is an associate professor of history, and their son, Alan Jasanoff ’92, Ph.D. ’98, is an associate professor of biological engineering at MIT and a tutor in biochemical science at Harvard. 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