Word: afro-am
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Harvard's Afro-Am Department, which has only two tenured faculty members and two junior professors, has had difficulty attracting outside scholars and retaining its junior faculty in recent years...
...dean says there are no plans to significantly expand the Afro-Am Department...
...Afro-Am is currently conducting a search to fill either a senior or junior slot in the social sciences, Huggins says. And Sollors has said that a joint appointment is in the works with the Music Department to replace the retired ethno-musicologist Eileen J. Southern...
Bond, who will teach courses on the Civil Rights Movement and on Black politics in the South, was recruited as an Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow by the Kennedy School of Government before being snatched away by Afro-Am, according to Huggins and students on the IOP. And Huggins says thatpeople like Bond who are not traditional scholarscan add excitement and diversity to thedepartment...
...although Huggins emphasizes the positive inhis discussion of the Afro-Am Department, he iswilling to concede that there are sticking pointsfor Black studies at Harvard...