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...History Department this year was one--but by no means the only--case in point. Over a period of about two months in early winter, the department told Mangol Bayat, David E. Kaiser '69, Mary F. Nolan and Thomas Philipp, assistant professor of History, that they would not be promoted to the position of associate professor and that their contracts would not be renewed...
...department will very likely be unable to fill the vacancies created by the denials in the near future, Patrice L.R. Higonnet, professor of History, said last week. Moreover, the departures of Nolan and Bayat will leave the department with no women faculty. Under these conditions, especially in a department that does not have enough instructors to teach a sufficient number of courses, denials of promotion are baffling and irresponsible...
...Bayat said yesterday the History Department's criteria are "inflated." Wallace T. MacCaffrey, department chairman, said yesterday the criterion for promotion to associate professor at Harvard is "to be tenurable at a major American university...
...Bayat took issue with MacCaffrey's contention that there are no women qualified for the position of associate professor. "I'm stung. It's so humiliating--Molly and I are highly qualified on the merits of scholarship," she said...
MacCaffrey said he is concerned that the loss of Nolan and Bayat will leave the department with no women faculty members, but he added that the department is "actively looking but not recruiting for qualified women candidates...