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According to Nesson's Web page, the five scholars Berkowitz's on ad hoc committee were Jerome Bruner, a noted psychologist and professor at New York University; Leon Kass, a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago; Ellen Kennedy, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania; Isaac Kramnick, a political theory professor at Cornell University; and Maria M. Tatar, professor of German at Harvard. Bruner co-founded Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies in 1960 while a professor here...
Harvard spokesperson Alex Huppe refused comment on the specifics of the Berkowitz case or on the makeup of the ad hoc committee. Huppe reiterated that University policy is to "not comment on individual tenure cases...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles also refused comment. "The membership of tenure ad hoc committees and all the proceedings and documentation are, as they have always been, strictly confidential," he said...
...composition of the Berkowitz committee as reported by Lenzner differs from typical tenure ad hoc committees at Harvard...
Huppe said ad hoc tenure review committees generally consist of three Harvard scholars and two members external to Harvard. The non-Harvard members of the committee are usually experts inthe same field as the prospective appointment andthe two members from Harvard are familiar withrelated fields, according to Huppe...