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The Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies announced the creation of the new field yesterday, validating a years-long student-led campaign.
The proposal first emerged last April as part of a key component of Flores’ agenda. It was finally approved Tuesday by a committee of 33 professors, lecturers, and deans.
Lecturer on History Denise Khor, a member of the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies, said the new field will allow students “to ask questions that might not get asked in a particular discipline.”
In the midst of the recession, the new field represents an attempt by Harvard “to do, within the financial constraints, whatever we can to create more of an intellectual vibrancy,” said Professor of English Literature and of African and African American Studies Werner Sollors...
After the registrar gives the chapter a list of students with the highest GPAs, the selection committee chooses new members based on faculty letters of recommendation, challenging courses, and “exceptional” academic breadth, according to History Professor Ann M. Blair, who is also president of Harvard?...