Word: scholarshipped
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...enroll into a field of concentration created to focus on the theory and history of their position in culture and society. The creation of the women’s studies concentration was, according to the Handbook for Students, an impetus to bring together the “new scholarship on women and gender that has come to occupy an increasingly important place in a number of disciplines over the past two decades...
...regional studies within already existing concentrations is ineffective. There is no single methodology for the study of race and ethnicity. Having ethnic studies students adjust their thesis projects to fit the methodological demands of an indirectly related concentration only temporarily curbs the problem caused by the emergence of new scholarship on ethnicity and race that, like that of women’s studies, is coming to occupy an increasingly important place in a number of disciplines...
Therefore, the marginalizing, the Orientalizing, the “otherness,” of ethnic studies should no longer occur in Harvard academia. Long established domination of scholarship by the Western European and American tradition does not justify the academic objectification of ethnic studies. After all, the first woman arrived at Harvard 58 years ago. But W. E. B. Dubois arrived long, long before...
...Hoxby never publicly said or implied anything to the contrary. They theorize that Hoxby’s resignation was merely a strategem against the living wage, but the only evidence they can furnish is that Hoxby “does not otherwise hide her criticism of unions in her scholarship...
...explicit pro-living wage agenda and it contains no one with an opposing agenda.” A curious locution. Who, if not Hoxby, opposes the progressive economics of a living wage at Harvard? As a conservative economist who does not otherwise hide her criticism of unions in her scholarship on school choice and who clearly wants a chorus of opponents of the living wage behind her, she has no good reason to misrepresent her politics on the committee, except, of course, if she wishes to misconstrue “diversity of opinion.” For more than...