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These short-term offers come at the same time the Afro-Am department begins searching for scholars to fill two tenured posts. Gates said two other departments will jointly sponsor these positions...
...Afro-Am department is seeking a scholar who will teach African literature in conjunction with the Comparative Literature Department, according to Gates. A second professor, affiliated with the Divinity School, will teach religion and history...
Noting the advantages of sharing professors between departments, Gates said he hopes Afro-Am will make junior and senior appointments in the near future with the History Department, the Music Department and the Fine Arts Department...
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences JeremyR. Knowles said he agrees with Gates' strategy forstaffing the Afro-Am department. Knowles said itis "very sensible to maximize the effectiveness ofthe department....It will create amulti-disciplinary department...
...students held many protests about the number of professors in the Afro-Am Department. Last spring the department had only one tenured professor--who was on leave--and no junior faculty at all. The University responded by securing Henry Louis Gates Jr. Now the department has five tenured faculty members, several junior faculty members and visiting scholars...