 | Harvey Goldblatt |
Harvey Goldblatt has been appointed to a third five-year term as the master of Pierson College, President Richard C. Levin has announced.
Goldblatt is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures who specialized in medieval Slavic philology and culture. He is especially interested in the Cyrillo-Methodian heritage, the East-Slavic chronicle patrimony and pre-modern Ukrainian literature in the age of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation.
In a letter to the Pierson College community, Levin noted that Goldblatt's reappointment was enthusiastically recommended by a committee of Yale faculty and staff chaired by Paul Freedman, the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History and chair of the Department of History. The committee consulted with fellows of Pierson College and students in the residential college.
"The committee, in reporting to me, described with affection Master Goldblatt's personal warmth and this generous and caring nature in dealings with both students and fellows," wrote Levin. "He has been firm but gentle in his leadership. His rapport with students has been called 'extraordinary' and his energy 'world class,' and they thoroughly enjoy the numerous people he has invited to speak at his master's teas. Master Goldblatt is devoted to Pierson and admired by all."
The president added that one student described Goldblatt by calling him "one of the most amazing human beings I've met in my life," while another described him as "one of the most influential mentors in my life."
A third student said of the master: "He constantly reminds us students to care for one another, and he lives that daily by always putting us first."
Goldblatt, a graduate of McGill University, earned M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale in Slavic languages and literatures. He also studied at Charles University in Prague and at Moscow State University. He joined the Yale faculty in 1977 and taught at the University of Ottawa from 1984 until he returned to Yale in 1990.
Levin thanked members of the review committee for their work. In addition to Freedman, they included Andrew Hill, professor and chair of anthropology and curator of anthropology at the Peabody Museum; Nathaniel Keohane, assistant professor at the School of Management and at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Corrine Pache, assistant professor of classics; and Shana Schneider, executive assistant to the vice president of New Haven and State Affairs.
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Harvey Goldblatt is reappointed
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