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Harvard's confidential tenure process--and the ad hoc committee in particular--has come under fire with last spring's tenure denials of Associate Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz and Bonnie Honig, now a tenured professor at Northwestern University...
Remember Bonnie Honig? She was the associate professor of government who's tenure denial last spring by President Neil L. Rudenstine created a furious uproar among female faculty members calling into question his commitment to diversity. It turns out that Honig, who has since become a tenured professor at Northwestern, was only half the story of that season of academic politics--the half that got reported...
...cases of Berkowitz and Honig were, in a matter of historical irony, inextricably intertwined. Both are political theorists: he is a Straussian, she a post-modernist. And by the fall of 1996 both had been teaching at Harvard for six years, the time when junior Faculty come up for tenure. Tenure, of course, is and never should be expected at a University where the official employment standard is "the best in the world." But a confluence of events--including the government department's approval of both candidates for tenured professorships at the same meeting--raised questions about why they were...
...through Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, requests letters from all senior Faculty in the candidate's departments and convenes an adhoc committee of "experts" from in and outside Harvard. Either or both of these factors were responsible for the President's actions last spring. In the Honig case, a letter from 15 female faculty members, including the government department's sole female political theorist Professor of Government Seyla Benhabib, raised questions as to the unduly critical nature of both the letter solicitations and the ad-hoc process. Now, Berkowitz is making many similar allegations in his own case...
...Bonnie Honig has deep enemies. She is the focal point. She had her enemies and they took her down, and having done so, they don't have the political clout to push a conservative [Berkowitz] through...