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...March, on the committee's recommendation, Rosovsky offered tenure in Afro-Am to three historians in the field. But Nathan I. Huggins, professor of history at Columbia University, was the only one of the trio to accept the offer. Huggins will assume the chairmanship of the department and direct the DuBois Institute, a center for studying issues concerning Afro-Americans, beginning July...
Huggins' addition--despite the fact that administrators targeted him as the key appointment--won't really expand the department's senior ranks, however, because Ewart Guinier, the only professor tenured solely in Afro-Am retired in January...
Having offered three historians positions in April, it is very strange that the committee now does not want a second one. Nathan I. Huggins, the only one who accepted the offer and the newly appointed chairman of Afro-Am, says two historians in the department would be "redundant." Huggins, however, is a generalist. Afro-Am needs specialists in various periods--one of them being slavery. This was one of the committee's original aims. We see no need for a change...
Huggins said Thursday he requested the committee change its policy and try to find scholars in literature and social sciences other than history. Two historians in Afro-Am would be "redundant", Huggins said...
History is the "most important area in Afro-Am," Aaron A. Estis '80, a concentrator, said, adding "It's strange that at one time they wanted three historians, and now they're satisfied with...