Philip Jones
I remember sharing a cab ride with Sidney at MPSA in 2006, when I was a new grad student. I was traveling to China for the first time the next morning, and told Sid. He let me talk about all the exciting things I was going to do for fifteen minutes, before offhandedly mentioning that he had been there decades earlier as part of an official Harvard delegation and that he thought I'd love it. This strikes me as illustrative of Sidney's character—simultaneously a man of such stature and intellect that, of course, Harvard would want him representing them abroad, and a man of such humility that he'd listen patiently to me prattle on about a country he knew so much more about. I learned so much from Sidney, but how to respectfully treat others as equals is the lesson I'll try to remember the most.
