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...This is slightly more than usual,” said David Blackbourn, Coolidge Professor and chair of the history department, who is also one of the professors on leave next fall...
...monthly faculty meetings, hiring seminars and occasional Christmas parties are the modus operandi for social cohesion. “It’s sad we get together so often to do administrative things, but not enough to enjoy our company intellectually,” says history department chair David Blackbourn. And sometimes disagreements among faculty concerning the basic principles that govern the discipline can hinder collaborative efforts...
...single biggest problem is geographic dispersion,” says Frieden. “Less than one-third of the faculty have offices in the same building. I rarely see the colleagues that are not in my building.” Blackbourn is sympathetic to the government department’s space dilemma. While the history department’s headquarters in Robinson Hall, professors have office space in Coolidge and CES as well. Blackbourn calls the history department a “friendly place to work,” but acknowledges that the geographic reality limits the ability...
...departments say that the junior faculty are a self-selecting group who are self-motivated when it comes to pursuing tenure. “Mostly we tend to hire the kind of junior faculty who are extraordinarily talented and put a lot of pressure on themselves,” Blackbourn says. They have in common an enormous inner drive. The hiring of junior faculty is taken very seriously now because we’re hiring people who could be tenured down the road. They realize this...
...Blackbourn able to overcome the stress and give Leary the correct answer? I think Ill have to answer no comment on that for now. But I can say it was history-related, admits Blackbourn. Since the show will not air until the first Monday in October, he is not at liberty to disclose either the question or his answer. While we dont know what Dennis Leary or the MA Firefighters Association got from the deal, Blackbourn says he had a sense of satisfaction in knowing that he helped raise money for a worthy cause. Harvard will have to tune...