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...among junior faculty. In 2004 then-University President Lawrence H. Summers’ refusal to tenure Marcyliena Morgan—the resident hip-hop scholar of Harvard’s African and African American Studies Department—led to her departure as well as that of her renowned sociologist husband, Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo. After interim President Derek C. Bok approved a tenure offer for Morgan last spring, University President Drew G. Faust wooed the couple back, bringing the the two luminaries back into the fold...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Navigating Tenure | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...Sandinista revolution in the 1980s diversified the quotas of power in the country," said sociologist Cirilo Otero. "There was a displacement of the oligarchy; a lot of investment left the country, and what is left is the remnants of a class whose influence and power are almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Goes the Neighborhood | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...oligarchy is in a profound crisis; it's in its final days," says sociologist Orlando Nunez, author of the briskly selling Oligarchy in Nicaragua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Goes the Neighborhood | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...some Turkish women the issue extends beyond how students dress their hair to the broader question of how secular women can thrive in a Muslim society. In an interview last weekend, Serif Mardin, a prominent liberal sociologist, cautioned against social changes that could impinge on the freedoms of non-religious women in Turkey. "I am 100% convinced that the ban on headscarves is an anti-democratic practice," he told Hurriyet. "But I also believe Turkish women are justified in thinking that their status is in jeopardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkish PM: End Ban on Headscarves | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

Marcyliena Morgan, a scholar of global hip-hop culture who was denied tenure under former University President Lawrence H. Summers, will be returning to Harvard in January with her husband, Lawrence D. Bobo, a prominent sociologist of race...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Spat with Summers, Af-Am ‘Dream Team’ Profs Return to Harvard | 9/14/2007 | See Source »

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