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...five-member search committee--composed of Faculty members from the history, government and Near Eastern languages and civilizations departments--is said to be split over both who to appoint as well as the academic validity of a so-called Holocaust chair itself...
...Social Studies Daniel J. Goldhagen, author of last year's controversial bestselling book, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, and a prominent contender for the new chair, is unlikely to be picked because of his relative youth and inexperience, another Faculty member familiar with the search said yesterday...
Reached yesterday, Goldhagen declined to comment on any aspect of the search...
...Faculty member familiar with the search said that although Browning, whose work Goldhagen has criticized, is a Holocaust scholar, he is not "Harvard material...
Reached yesterday, Wisse declined to add to those comments. She denied that she is a member of the search committee, although one member of the committee and two other Faculty members all said she sits on the committee...