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...Afro-Am Department first approached Loury last spring, but he replied that the only offer he would consider from the department was a joint position with the Economics Department, Loury said...
...specialist in microeconomic theory, labor economics, and industrial organization, Loury said he plans to teach an undergraduate course in the Afro Am Department that addresses issues in Afro-American studies from an economic perspective. In addition, he said he expects to lead Afro-Am junior tutorials and graduate courses in economics...
...point last year, when a joint appointment appeared impossible. Loury turned down the Afro-Am Department's offer, he said...
Nathan I. Huggins, chairman of the Afro-Am Department, said last fall the department expected to make two tenured appointments by March--one in literature and one in a social science other than history...
Most of the country's Afro-Am department--including Harvard's, until this year--have focused on history and literature or history and culture. "We're starting to take a different approach--to bring a strong social science component into the department," Huggins and in October...