Seven Scholars To Join Gov Dept.

Seven scholars will join the Government department next year as assistant professors, department officials said last week.

That number "is not extraordinary, but it is high," said Department Administrator Amanda W. Hurd. "There is a trend toward hiring more junior faculty in the department."

The department has hired that many professors simultaneously only once or twice in the late 1980s, she said.

Government faculty searches, which take place annually, focus on covering areas of study, rather than on filling the openings left by departing professors, Hurd said.

Professorial appointments are sometimes specially funded by outside groups, she said.

Daniel Goldhagen, currently a graduate student in the Government Department whose dissertation is entitled "The Political, Social and Cultural Sources of Nazi Genocide," will be an assistant professor of Western European politics.

J. Lawrence Broz, who is finishing his dissertation at the University of California, Los Angeles, well be assistant professor of international relations. Joel Hellman, presently a student at Columbia University, will be assistant professor in post-Soviet politics.

Alastair Iain Johnson will teach Chineseforeign policy. He currently studies at theUniversity of Michigan. And Edward Schwartz willcome from the Stanford University School ofBusiness to serve as assistant professor inpolitical economy/institutions.

Two of the new government professors willarrive at Harvard in the spring. Pratap Mehta, whois working on his dissertation at Princeton, willteach political theory. Deborah Yasbar, who iscompleting a dissertation at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, will be an assistantprofessor in Latin American politics.

In addition, the Classics Department will addone new junior faculty member, Classics DepartmentAdministrator Brenda D. Sens said yesterday.

Carolyn Higbie, who will be an assistantprofessor in philology, is currently a professorat Southern lllinois University at Carbondale,Sens said.

She "has a reputation of being a great teacheras well as a first-rate scholar," said ActingChair of the Classics Department Gregory Nagy.

Higbie's interests include oral literature,Greek archaeology and epigraphy, linguistics andancient history, Sens said.

Nagy said Higbie may co-teach a course with herhusband, classical and medieval studies scholarTimothy Boyd, in the Harvard Extension School.

Sens said Higbie will fill a space in thedepartment left by Associate Professor of theClassics John C. Bodel, who will join the facultyof Brown University next year.

"We never think of it as one replacing theother," Nagy said, adding that department leadershope "to find the best available talent that isout there.

Alastair Iain Johnson will teach Chineseforeign policy. He currently studies at theUniversity of Michigan. And Edward Schwartz willcome from the Stanford University School ofBusiness to serve as assistant professor inpolitical economy/institutions.

Two of the new government professors willarrive at Harvard in the spring. Pratap Mehta, whois working on his dissertation at Princeton, willteach political theory. Deborah Yasbar, who iscompleting a dissertation at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, will be an assistantprofessor in Latin American politics.

In addition, the Classics Department will addone new junior faculty member, Classics DepartmentAdministrator Brenda D. Sens said yesterday.

Carolyn Higbie, who will be an assistantprofessor in philology, is currently a professorat Southern lllinois University at Carbondale,Sens said.

She "has a reputation of being a great teacheras well as a first-rate scholar," said ActingChair of the Classics Department Gregory Nagy.

Higbie's interests include oral literature,Greek archaeology and epigraphy, linguistics andancient history, Sens said.

Nagy said Higbie may co-teach a course with herhusband, classical and medieval studies scholarTimothy Boyd, in the Harvard Extension School.

Sens said Higbie will fill a space in thedepartment left by Associate Professor of theClassics John C. Bodel, who will join the facultyof Brown University next year.

"We never think of it as one replacing theother," Nagy said, adding that department leadershope "to find the best available talent that isout there.