Word: grabar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Archaeology of Medieval Jerusalem--Oleg Grabar; Peabody Museum, noon...
...those four male appointments, the professor says, three clearly "had the edge" in quality over competing female candidates--but in the fourth case, "the department wanted somehow a junior edition of itself." Oleg Grabar, chairman of the department, explains that the appointment in question reflected "a kind of judgement of the facts that the man was chosen was more interesting and imaginative" than the woman over whom he was chosen. He declines to identify either candidate but says that the charges that departments reproduce themselves have "some truth" in relation to gender...
...Grabar contends that most departments will recognize the Skocpol case as an aberration, explaining that "I don't think that the department [Fine Arts] could be foolish enough to come to a formal vote as Sociology did" in failing to promote Skocpol. In response to Rosovsky's advice that the departments hire more women and to the recently-implemented minority and women faculty study, though. Grabar says Fine Arts will now stress finding strong female candidates more than identifying needy subfields in the department and then trying to find individuals to fill them. However, he cautions. "The subfields...
Curricular topics under review include minor fields of study and museum training. Oleg Grabar, chairman of the department, said yesterday, calling the current museum training "half-baked, for the time being...
...committee was formed in the fall out of concern that graduate students' training is "too narrow" Grabar said yesterday. He added that the program has not been reviewed for ten years...