Hankins also cites the humor in Fleming's lectures as an element that is hard to replace.
"He was a splendid lecturer and stand up comic and all that one needs to be to succeed as a professor," he says.
"In short, he will be very much missed when he retires," Kirby says.
A New Direction?
Two other associate history professors, Ann M. Blair and Brendan Dooley, have incorporated the progress of thought into their own courses.
But it is up to Kloppenberg to fill Fleming's shoes, Harvard historians say.
"Kloppenberg...has, like Donald Fleming, extensive background in European intellectual history as well and will presumably go on to play a role at least somewhat like the role that Professor Fleming has played," Miller says.
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