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...Afro-American Studies Visiting Committee met twice, sparking controversy for its recommendation to change the status of Afro-American Studies. This prompted Ewart Guinier, the department’s first chair, to argue that then-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Henry Rosovsky was trying to weaken the department by refusing tenure to Isaac and by insisting that only joint appointees (that is, professors who were not solely tied to the Afro-American Studies department) receive tenure...
...This dearth of African studies was to remain until former Af Am Chair and Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. and other faculty members could argue effectively for the University and FAS to consider seriously the issue of Africa in relation to the department’s pedagogical goals...
...it’s a great tragedy,” he said. “It will be many years before anybody knows their way around the building the way that he did.” —Staff writer Marianne F. Kaletzky can be reached at kaletzky@fas...
...Since the Chinese aphorisms of William C. Kirby gave way to the English expressions of Jeremy R. Knowles and finally once more to the anthropologist’s analogies of Pilbeam, the second-story office of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) chief has been without a permanent occupant...
...think that would be a very unfortunate situation to be in, because we’ve had so much turmoil and so much interim-ness that it would not be good for FAS or for the University,” he said...