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...seemed to be a proposal that implied the way to strengthen smaller departments was merging them with larger ones,” Eck said. “Both departments would have had to give up their identities. The issue had not been discussed widely outside of Sanskrit and East Asian. It seemed that the breadth of consultation on the wisdom of this had not been sufficiently wide to go ahead at this time...
Some professors in other small humanities departments—many of which share some intellectual interests with the Sanskrit department—said they should have been informed earlier in the process...
...appointments in South Asian studies that would have gone to the merged department are no longer allocated, leaving Knowles’ successor to determine whether to grant the autonomous Sanskrit department additional faculty slots...
...said Sanskrit felt that gains in new appointments would be outweighed by the loss of its independence...
...mail sent to Sanskrit concentrators by Sanskrit student representative Meghan C. Howard ’04 said Associate Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies Stephanie W. Jamison suggested at the meeting that Sanskrit might follow the path of the Linguistics department. Since Knowles appointed a committee to explore dissolving Linguistics in 1993, the department has hired multiple senior professors...