Word: schamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Schama says that while the offer made to his wife was a "golden opportunity," he sees the move as an "equal job opportunity" for both. "I'm delighted to be going there and eager to start," he says...
What seemed to distinguish the Schama tenure battle from others in the recent past is that Schama, not Papaioannou, seemed to be the spouse necessitating heavy recruiting...
...example, Harvard's usual practice would have been to search for a comparable position for Papaioannou at a Boston-area university or medical school, had they wanted to hold on to Schama, which by all reports, they...
...Harvard either didn't search, or wasn't able to find a post. And that suggests that Columbia may have made an end-run around traditional strategies of luring big names, approaching Schama's wife before they approached Schama--the real prize...
...offer to Papaioannou may have been the ultimate lure for Schama, a huge international name whose university's zip code is of little importance to either his colleagues or book publishers...