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Kirby has been seen as a potential dean for years. His experience as a former chair of a major department, history, is a highly valued asset in a candidate for the deanship...
Committee members said they did not know whether being appointed excluded them from consideration for the deanship...
Knowles told The Crimson yesterday that he had long felt his departure from the deanship should shortly follow the selection of a new University president...
When the opportunity for a wink, a smile, and seamless progress did not exist, Knowles was not afraid to cross colleagues who failed to stay on board. Three times in his deanship, he appointed trusted professors in unrelated fields to take over departments he believed were troubled—he deployed Professor of Music Christoph J. Wolff to oversee Linguistics in 1993 and Sanskrit in 1995, and just last year named Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber to take over Visual and Environmental Studies after removing the prior chair, Ellen Phelan, when she refused to resign...
Former FAS deans have come to the position with a variety of backgrounds—while some have served as department chairs, others have risen to the deanship straight from the rank and file of the Faculty...