Word: ams
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The department has not made a senior level appointment since Werner Sollors, the department's chair, was tenured in 1983. Arnold Rampersad, another Afro Am literary expert, declined an offer from the University earlier this year.
McKay's rejection represents an unexpected setback for the department, whose administrators had billed the tenure offer as part of an effort to reinvigorate Afro-Am here.
According to one former Afro-Am professor, the difficulties Harvard's department has had in attracting faculty are caused by the University's tradition-laden tenure system.
Blight said the University-wide problems were exarcerbated in Afro-Am because of its small size and unconventional fields of study.
"The girls are really working hard," Lem said. "I am looking for more positive stuff out of them now that [they] have a month of play under their belts."