“I think that it’s a myth that the humanities are in some way unsuited for collective scholarship,” Daston observes. One project traces the history of the concept of natural disasters, which, Daston startlingly observes, recently drew to a close. “We have lost the category of a natural disaster for which no one is at fault,” Daston points out. Lande spent a year in graduate school at the University of Chicago before making the move to Harvard with his adviser Richard Lewontin. “You cannot keep compromising.”Mary Beth Norton, PhD ’69, HistoryImage Mary Beth Norton / Illustration by Matt CookHistorian Beth Norton has been blazing unexpected trails her entire career.