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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...
...department's reputation preceded it," Arnesen says...
...long as the expectation that you need to be a superstar in x amount of time exists, then they need to give us the time," says Assistant Professor of History Eric Arnesen. History Department members recently asked Bok to allow them more paid leave time, a request identical to the one pressed by English faculty at their recent meeting with the president...
...have just built a strong tendency into the system that teaching and students will suffer," Arnesen says...