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Then, this winter Assistant Professor of History Catherine Clinton--the only woman Americanist and the only expert on American women's history at the University--was blocked in her bid for a promotion to the level of associate professor. Together the three professors teach nearly one half of all the department's American history offerings...
...Americanist at another school says, speaking on the condition of anonymity, "When we see Harvard ranked as the number one department, we just laugh...
...department which once led the field is now seen by many American historians as a house divided, which is unable to make appointments and devoid of intellectual dynamism. Indeed, the last time an Americanist was given tenure was in 1980, and that was a joint appointment. Says one Harvard alumnus who is an Americanist at the University of South Carolina, "I felt I was much better off when I was there [more than 20 years ago] than students there today...
Next year, after Emerson expert and English Chairman Joel Porte leaves the University to accept a fulltime post at Cornell University next year, the department will have only one full-time Americanist on the faculty. Professor of English Sacvan Bercovitch, who was lured away from Columbia University in 1983, will have to hold down the fort alone next year. Ironically, he came to Harvard saying he hoped to lead a renaissance of the study of American culture...
...more than thirty years of teaching, Bailyn has had a fair amount of influence on a generation of Americanist. As Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom puts it. "His students beyond all debate dominate the field of American colonial and revolutionary history...