Word: laiou
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...March 8 article on Women's History Week, I was incorrectly quoted as saying that the History Department has made absolutely no commitment to bringing in a woman's historian. Professor Angeliki Laiou, chair of the History Department, was quite correct in pointing out, in her letter to The Crimson of March 11, that the History Department has indeed appointed Professor Olwen Hufton, a historian of European women. As Professor Laiou noted, I am certainly aware of the appointment, since Professor Hufton is also chair of the Committee of Degree's on Women's Studies, the program in which...
Professor Laiou pointed out that the History Department has always co-sponsored Women's History Week. It should be noted that Women's Studies, Radcliffe, and the Radcliffe Union of Students are also major sponsors of this event. The planners of Women's History Week, who are over-whelmingly graduate and undergraduate students, are not ungrateful for the Department's financial support. Yet as dozens of outstanding scholars come to campus each year, their brief but illuminating presence makes more apparent than ever the intransigence of the History Department when it comes to making senior and junior appointments...
...eminent women's historian, Professor Olwen Hufton. I believe that Dr. Michel knows this, as certainly did your reporter, because I mentioned it to him when we spoke. I should like to add that the History Department has been co-sponsoring Women's History Week for some years. Angeliki Laiou Chairman, History Department
Some historians have faulted chairman Laiou, who is a professor of Byzantine history, for not providing the department with strong enough leadership, and allowing the internal divisions to cripple the American wing. But Laiou calls such statements fiction: "This is a department where there are honest disagreements about any number of things, but that does not make for a crisis. As far as I'm concerned there is no crisis. My God, Robinson Hall is standing up beautifully. We've got all the measurable signs which are positive...
...criticism that Harvard's American wing has received from other members of the historical profession is the result of a general fondness for Harvard bashing, she says. "It's not difficult to find people around the country who find it easy to criticize a highly visible place," Laiou says...