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Menchu was selected for the $1.2 million prize, the committee said, "in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation." Amid the "large-scale repression of Indian peoples" in Guatemala, she plays a "prominent part as an advocate of native rights." Francis Sejersted, the chairman, said the committee was "aware that this is a somewhat controversial prize." The fact that it came during the quincentennial "was not a coincidence," he said, "but it was not the only factor...
...getting drawn in is easy for someone raised in exile communities in the Middle East and Europe for most of her life. Abu-Ghaida spent her early years in Beirut, Lebanon. That means having a heightened sense of both ethno-religious identity and the chaos that accompanies...
Afro-Am is currently conducting a search to fill either a senior or junior slot in the social sciences, Huggins says. And Sollors has said that a joint appointment is in the works with the Music Department to replace the retired ethno-musicologist Eileen J. Southern...
...next term, the professor holding joint tenure in music and Afro-American studies will retire. Her departure, on a pragmatic level, will leave the University without a scholar in ethno-musicology; more symbolically, it will strip the small female contingent within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of any senior Black presence...
Southern's achievements in the field of ethno-musicology have prompted some scholars, including Music Department Chairman Lewis H. Lockwood, to call Southern "certainly the leading scholar in the United States in the field of Afro-American music...