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Harvard has extended a tenured professorship to hip hop expert Marcyliena Morgan, an offer denied three years ago under the presidency of Lawrence H. Summers. Members of the Department of African and African American Studies said yesterday that an ad hoc committee and Interim University President Derek C. Bok approved the case about a week ago and a formal job offer was extended to Morgan, currently the executive director of Stanford University’s Hiphop Archive. It is not known whether Morgan has accepted the offer, and she could not be reached for comment...
...leading legal scholar in trusts and estates will leave the New York University School of Law to join the Harvard Law School faculty next fall. The appointment of Robert H. Sitkoff to the tenure-track professorship is the Law School’s fifth appointment of the year, and comes just a week after the Law School announced that Gabriella Blum and D. James Greiner would be joining the faculty as assistant professors. The other two professors who were appointed earlier in the year were Kathryn Spier of Northwestern University’s School of Management and School...
...creation of a new professorship dedicated to this very subject is in the works. The Watson Chair in Science and Religion “could make Harvard the world’s center in the academic discussion of science and religion,” says Clayton, who says he is vying for the post. According to Edwards, the position will not be filled until the fall...
...letter, Knowles proposes that nearly every professorship added by the faculty expansion go to the sciences. That’s not to say that non-science departments will get no new professors; they will be able to replace departing and retiring faculty to maintain their size and may be able to expand their size if they are able to woo a donor to endow a chair. But most of the money FAS is pouring into the expansion will, according to Knowles, go towards hiring new scientists. Knowles justifies this by comparing Harvard to peer institutions, which reveals that Harvard lags...
After penning a biography on the greatest Ukrainian historian of the 20th century, Serhii Plokhii is now prepared to take the professorship named after the subject of his book...