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...became the first junior faculty member to be nominated for tenure by the Sociology Department in more than a decade. It turns out that that’s not enough at Harvard, which rejected his application last month. Another star, Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, recently met the same fate. These two are only the latest in a long string of highly qualified junior faculty members who were unable to meet the inordinately exacting standards of Harvard’s tenure review process. Harvard is famous for sending away even the most promising junior faculty to make...
Graduate students began collecting signatures yesterday for a letter protesting the University’s decision to deny tenure to Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, a leading scholar of pre-modern Japanese history. The petition, which included the names of roughly 50 undergraduate and graduate students as of last night, calls into question Mass. Hall’s commitment to pre-modern Japanese studies. The letter seeks “not only to laud the professor’s qualities as a teacher and mentor, but to make a case for the field of Japanese pre-modern...
...breadth of those fields.“It’s important for students that they can make their own judgment, it’s easier for them to do that if they see historians disagree,” says Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, who teaches Historical Studies A-14, “Japan: Tradition and Transformation,” with History chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74. “History is probably one of the best fields to team teach.”Team-taught humanities courses are often divided chronologically...
...Tales of Historic Kyoto.” While the course description stated that there was a possibility of a class trip, Hamden remembers being unclear whether that meant “a trip to Japan or a trip to the MFA.” Her professor, Mikael Adolphson, funded the trip through grants...
Professor Mikael Adolphson, who also teaches Historical Studies A-14 wrote in an e-mail that visits to office hours “are usually prompted by more complex questions” that are difficult to resolve over e-mail...