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...when Skocpol returned to Harvard’s conflict-ridden sociology department after turning down rival offers, she was not unanimously welcomed...
...Skocpol will divide the department,” said then-professor of sociology Ezra Vogel. “Wherever she has been, there’s always been conflict...
...Skocpol only added fuel to the fire when she began publicly decrying Harvard’s treatment of her, such as when, in a speech to the American Sociological Society, she called Harvard “the most arrogant university in the Western World...
...Skocpol says that the purpose of the proposed three-person mediation committee “wasn’t so much mediation,” but “to familiarize ourselves with the concerns of the deans and faculty…which would certainly not get sorted out in those giant [Faculty] meetings...
Although the committee—comprised of Skocpol, former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, and Pforzheimer University Professor Sid Verba ’53—was rejected by the majority of the Faculty for being “undemocratic and prearranged,” Skocpol says professors did not listen to a full explanation...