Word: americanist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letters, many written by people he did not know, warned him of the dismal prospects for a junior Americanist, especially one interested in social history, at Harvard, Arnesen says. Nevertheless, he accepted the offer and arrived to a History Department reeling from public criticism over two recent tenure decisions...
...department also denied tenure to 20th century Americanist A. Bradford Lee, then associate professor of history...
...Americanist in the department attributes the slowness of making both junior and senior appointments to resistance among certain department members to hire scholars who specialize in fields of social and cultural history...
...last Americanist to be promoted from ajunior position in the History Department wasWinthrop Professor of History Stephan A.Thernstrom, who was offered tenure more than 20years ago. But Gienapp said yesterday thatYanowski's appointment won't be a dead...
...extraordinary teacher. He succeeded in making Afro-Am a major interest with our undergraduates in only three years," says Micheal Gilmore, a professor of English and American literature at Brandeis. "He is the best young African-Americanist in the country...