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Currently, Arnesen finds himself in the very predicament he had been warned of years ago. After four years of teaching a variety of courses, ranging from survey courses to courses in his specialities of African-American and labor histories, Arnesen was denied a promotion to associate professor without tenure last spring...
...Arnesen and several scholars at Harvard and other universities view his rejection as symptomatic of the department's long-standing failure to promote junior faculty and its disdain for scholars pursuing non-traditional fields of social and cultural history...
...Arnesen's departure will weaken the already thin ranks of Americanists, a problem many in the department and undergraduate concentrators are impatient for the department to remedy...
...Arnesen points to the steadily declining numbers of Harvard undergraduates who choose to concentrate in history as further evidence of student dissatisfaction with the department...
...decline in junior tutorial enrollment, Arnesen says, "speaks volumes" about the fact that students are staying away from history because they are wary of the current dearth of senior American historians...