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...Professor of Medieval History Thomas N. Bisson, who chairs the department, says he does not feel left...
...Harvard Yard is not that big," Bisson says. "We meet each other in lots of buildings. I don't think the fact of not having offices next to other colleagues makes much difference...
Much of this is true. Yet, while I'm certainly no apologist for the department (memo to Bisson: hire some 20th century Americanists and offer tenure in the American wing more than once every 20 years), I often feel picking on the byzantine bureaucracy of Robinson Hall misses the point. I am a History concentrator because I like history, not because I like the structure. If a friendly and flexible group of mentors had been my first priority, I wouldn't be at Harvard...
...students should welcome the more specific classes and not simply concentrate on "popular" areas of history, Bisson says...
...department does not hire based upon ideology, Bisson says...