Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Explaining his insistence on a joint position. Loury said, "Although I have same interest in Afro-American studies, an appointment in that department alone would not have afforded me that breadth and opportunity for growth I felt were important...
...point last year, when a joint appointment appeared impossible. Loury turned down the Afro-Am Department's offer, he said...
Griliches said the University and the Afro Am Department had not pressured the Economics Department to tenure Loury. "It's something the University though would be a good idea. We went back and forth on it and we agreed it was a good idea," 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...