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...undergraduates.Seventeen concentrations aim to have secondary field proposals ready for EPC approval sometime this fall, including Astronomy, The Classics, English and American Literature and Language, Environmental Science and Public Policy, Folklore and Mythology, Government, History, History of Art and Architecture, Linguistics, Mathematics, Music, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy, Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Sociology, Statistics, and Film Studies, a track in the VES department, according to department chairs and directors of undergraduate studies.Departments that will consider allowing next year’s seniors to declare a secondary field in their area include Astronomy, English, Government, History, Music, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology...
...also affect the strength of the tenure case that is presented for higher review by an ad hoc committee. “I think generally, larger departments make better appointments, because there’s a much greater variety of opinions about a given candidate,” says Sanskrit and Indian Studies Chair Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp. —Emily J. Nelson contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...candidates’ research and potential contributions, say Alesina and Martin. But Summers also has to make decisions about cases in other fields.“To what degree can a president make a decision about people in areas about which he really knows nothing?” asks Sanskrit and Indian Studies ChairLeonard W.J. van der Kuijp. “A humbling moment should take place, so then I believe the president will have closely to read what the ad hoc committee has to say and also look very closely at the files of the person who?...
...India, the subcontinent and South Asia studies,” Summers said, according to the newspaper. “Like people study political science, culture, public health, economics, law and medicine, students in Harvard will now study India as a subject.” In an interview yesterday, Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department Chair Leonard Van Der Kuijp—who is also affiliated with the University’s South Asia Initiative—said he did not know what specifically Summers was referring to in the interview. “We are looking forward to learning more about...
Harvard’s only tenured Sanskrit professor, Michael E. J. Witzel, received e-mails labelling him a “bastard” and calling for his death after he entered a debate over the portrayal of Hinduism in California textbooks earlier this year.In November, Witzel, the Wales professor of Sanskrit, was notified about edits submitted by the Vedic Foundation (VF) and the Hindu Education Foundation (HEF) for the California State Board of Education’s review of sixth grade social studies textbooks. The organizations said that the books should be revised to ensure that their depictions...