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History is seeking to fill a vacancy left byProfessor of History and Afro-American StudiesNathan I. Huggins, who died last spring...
Recent student protests--particularly lastmonth's overnight University Hall sit-in--havedrawn campus attention to the ever-thinning ranksof the Afro-American Studies Department...
...Afro-Am currently has one professor to itspermanent roster. Next semester, when Professor ofAmerican Literature and Afro-American StudiesWerner Sollors goes on leave, only visitingscholars and those with short-term appointmentswill teach department courses...
Although the Afro-Am chair said there waspotential for backlash from scholars who might beturned away by such campus unrest, so far, sheadded, she has seen none...
...past, the department has had difficultyfilling open tenured posts. Still, someadministrators say the general push for Afro-Amfaculty appointments may help move the searchcommittee forward. That panel is chaired byProfessor of History William E. Gienapp, who alsosits on Afro-Am's executive committee...