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...Perhaps more bitter than a premature departure is when the tenure application of a popular professor is denied. Last year, two star junior professors—Sociology Professor Jason A. Kaufman ’93 and Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson??were both denied tenure after being nominated by their respective departments. Both will have to leave soon and find teaching jobs elsewhere, after spending years at Harvard...
...Harvard’s strength in the pre-modern era,” Yellen said. Jeffrey Y. Kurashige, a third-year graduate student in pre-modern Japanese history who spent the day gathering signatures, said that the tenure denial seems to indicate that the University is not interested in Adolphson??s field. “The message this decision sends to academia as a whole is that Harvard doesn’t value history before contact with the West,” Kurashige said. Interim President Derek C. Bok, whose office holds the final say on University tenure...
When Erika T. Hamden ’06 signed up for Assistant Professor of Japanese History Mikael Adolphson??s freshman seminar on Kyoto, Japan, she took note of the words “possibility of a trip included” tucked away at the end of the course description. As it turned out, she and the other 11 seminar students were treated to a week in Japan over spring break. The students and Adolphson stayed at a Zen temple in Kyoto, and visited Osaka. Each student was responsible for giving the group a brief rundown on a particular...
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