Keeping a foot in the classroom allows her to maintain a feel for the school’s pulse.
Though most deans teach occasionally, Minow managed to teach a yearlong course and a class during the winter term—as well as lectured at various universities and completed a book on Brown v. Board of Education to be published this summer—an academic load that Jackson says is unusually heavy.
“It’s a signal to the faculty that that’s what she thinks is important,” Jackson says.
Minow says that the highlight of her week is office hours with her students.
“I love the life I’ve been able to have as a scholar and a teacher here and I want to continue to do that and figuring out how to do that next year is a priority for me,” she says.
—Staff writer Zoe A. Y. Weinberg can be reached at zoe.weinberg@college.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer Elias J. Groll can be reached at egroll@fas.harvard.edu.