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...Part of the responsibility for the deficit,surely, lies with the director who raised no moneyand then exploited the scarcity of funds as areason to strangle the museum completely," wroteLecturer of Social Studies Martin Peretz in acommentary published in The Crimson two weeks...
...longtime supporter of the museum, Lecturer in Social Studies Martin H. Peretz, alleged in an editorial that appeared in The Crimson last month that Stager wants the museum only to advance his own specific research interests...
Stager came to Harvard from the University of Chicago in 1986, and in July, 1987 became Director of the Museum. Peretz observes, "Put starkly, he had zero interest in the work it did. A learned, but extraordinarily narrow specialist, he saw the space and the moneys of the museum uses as assets he could annex to his own archaeological enterprises...
...claim of Peretz [surely not on the basis of his own knowledge] that Stager is an extraordinarily narrow specialist can be answered easily by drawing on the dossier collected to present to the President's ad hoc committee appointed to review his appointment to the Dorot Chair. A leitmotif in the recommendations of senior scholars from many nations, including Israel's most distinguished archaeologists, was the extraordinary breadth of Stager's scholarship both in his field and in adjacent fields including anthropology [Stager is a member of Harvard's department of Anthropology], historiography, and historiographic theory, ancient Near Eastern...
...reads Peretz, the Museum's primary activity at Ashkelon is labeled Stager's personal research, not the Museum's. This is bizarre. It is the Museum's most important project. In fact the major effort of the Museum at Ashkelon has been fully funded through the efforts of Professor Stager. But the fact that Ashkelon has not contributed to the Museum's deficit does not disqualify it as a Museum program. Similarly the publication of the Harvard Semitic Museum's two series, the Harvard Semitic Museum Monographs and the Harvard Semitic Museum Studies are among the major activities...