MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Socialist Scientism (SHASS) has once again distinguished itself by advancing another serious scholar into the senior administration of the world’s leading STEM university.

Following in the footsteps of Professor Melissa Nobles, who rose from academic obscurity to become Chancellor courtesy of her racism scholarship, the MIT School that has produced a record number of Nobel Prize winners in economics is now being represented by a cheese expert.

Professor of Anthropology Heather Paxson, recently named associate dean for faculty, teaches courses on food, family, craft, and the meaning of life. Her primary responsibility will be promoting the advancement of SHASS faculty, since we don’t have enough people in senior leadership positions at MIT who couldn’t pass freshman calculus.

Paxson is perhaps best loved for the role she has played railing against MIT’s traditional nerd culture. Her passion is increasing the influence of washout undergrads who end up majoring in humanities, radical feminist professors who have declared themselves enemies of reason, Marxist post docs bridging feminist, queer, critical race, and disability theory to fight settler colonialism, and eccentric promoters of other ways of knowing.

Finding more Deans like Heather is the best way to help SHASS turn MIT into Oberlin.

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