Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Competition and the more complex market in which one is playing have made appointments in general harder to make," said DuBois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathan Huggins...
Growing interest in the field has prompted increased competition for professors in the discipline at universities across the country. Many of these schools have autonomous Afro-American departments that are more easily able to hire faculty than Yale's program...
...There were times when an individual came up for tenure and the two sponsoring departments would not agree," said Henry L. Gates, a literary scholar who left the Yale program in 1985 for Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center. Gates is one of three Afro-American Studies professors who have left Yale since...
Edmund Gordon, the chair of Yale's Afro-American Studies program, said that administrators at Yale are considering the possibility of granting his program departmental status...
Other universities have not been immune to the effects of growing competition for professors in Afro-American Studies...