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...Stauffer, the Loeb associate professor of the humanities, yesterday became just the third junior faculty member to win tenure in the English department in the last 14 years...
...Stauffer, who is on leave this year, studies American literature and culture, particularly 19th century, and teaches classes on Civil War and protest literature. His first book, The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race, won a Yale prize in 2002 for being the best book on slavery, resistance and abolitionism published that year...
Before he became an assistant professor at Harvard in 1999, Stauffer had earned a undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Duke, where he was ranked 40th in the country in collegiate tennis...
...Stauffer said that while he always loved literature, his parents were unsure about his prospects as an academic...
...parents thought that the idea of writing for a living or being a professor was crazy...I basically had a hard time standing up for myself,” said Stauffer, who spent the years between fifth and tenth grades moving among small towns in Nebraska, Iowa and North Dakota...