Colleagues express confidence, elation in selection of Hopi Hoekstra as next dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences!
James Hanken was chatting with colleague Hopi Hoekstra at a Harvard faculty meeting this spring. “I said to her, ‘Are you going to be the next FAS dean?’ I had no inkling; I was not involved in the dean search in any way,” the biology professor said. “But all along she struck me as an ideal candidate.”
Hanken, reached Tuesday by phone while conducting fieldwork in India, said he was thrilled to learn the news that Hoekstra indeed will become the next Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He ticked off a series of superlatives concerning Hoekstra’s academic accomplishments, teaching credentials, work ethic, and personal warmth.
“I’m very excited for her, and very excited for Harvard,” said Hanken, who works alongside Hoekstra in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. “I think she’s a terrific choice.”
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