Margaret Bruzelius '74 announced last week that she would be leaving her position as senior tutor in Eliot House to accept a deanship at Smith College.

Bruzelius's replacement will be Oona B. Ceder '90, an assistant professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego since 1997.

Ceder says she is looking forward to the job.

"[Harvard] is a home away from home," said Ceder, who came to Harvard from Sweden and lived in Winthrop House as an undergraduate.

Ceder stressed the idea of community when she talked about her new job.

"I see it as a job that focuses on community building as well as ensuring the students' academic and personal welfare," she said. "Eliot House has a wonderful set of resident tutors, and I want to continue to build on the community that already exists within the house."

Her first task, Ceder said, will be learning how the Harvard bureaucracy works and learning the names of the 460 undergraduates for whom she is responsible.

"Ideally I'd like to know them all on a first-name basis, like [Bruzelius]," she said.