Word: publishability
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Recently, Cambridge University Press (CUP) refused to publish a book about ethnic identity in the Greek province of Macedonia, written by former Harvard visiting scholar Anastasia Karakasidou. CUP executives claimed that the publication of her book, Fields of Wheat, Rivers of Blood, might have sparked violent retaliation by Greek nationalists against CUP employees in Greece. In her book, Karakasidou states that Macedonians may consider themselves Slavo-Macedonian rather than Greek, and this assertion could challenge Greek authority in the region...
...also noted in the article that no formal contract to publish the book had been signed...
Professor of Anthropology Michael Herzfeld has accused CUP of infringing on academic freedom in the wake of its decision not to publish Anastasia Karakasidou's study on Greek-Macedonian identity...
Many professors interviewed yesterday agreed that CUP had an obligation to publish the book...
...secret that to achieve tenure at Harvard you really need to be at the top of your field. Professors need to publish or establish themselves outside of the Harvard community in order for Harvard administrators to consider them favorably. Tenure is a word with major ramifications at Harvard. Don't say it around professors, it has the same effect that the word "recruiting" has for seniors, or "MCATS" for juniors--it is just not pleasant to think about. Concerned about their future, professors must devote a large portion of their time to researching, writing, inventing, and finding the cure...