Word: featherman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tried to follow the committee's advice by offerring tenured positions at Harvard to three sociologists: Nancy Tuma, a professor at Stanford University; Edward Laumann, dean of social sciences at Chicago; and David Featherman of the University of Wisconsin. All three refused...
...other two offers--to Chicago's Edward Laumann and Wisconsin's David Featherman--were turned down in the fall...
...time the conversation was over. Featherman had given the dean the brush...
...those are not the first reasons the refuseniks themselves offer in explaining their decisions not to come to Harvard. Laumann and Featherman, for instance, offered almost identical explanations: both thought their current departments were better than Harvard...
...gone to Harvard, it would have taken a year or two to construct the collegial network and develop the research facilities to put me somewhere close to where I am. "Featherman said in an interview this week...