Word: arnesen
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When Harvard's History Department offered Yale Ph.D. graduate Eric Arnesen an assistant professorship in the spring of 1987, the scholar says he was flooded with mail advising him not to accept the post...
...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...