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...Because of [my] race and gender, I end up taking on more than perhaps I ought to," says Carolivia Herron, assistant professor of Afro-American studies and comparative literature. Although Herron also serves as Afro-Am head tutor, she has not received the customary reduction in teaching load given to head tutors because of the diminished number of courses in her department. She says the administration is working out a plan to ease her teaching responsibilities in the future...
...Harvard has not yet filled two vacant positions in her department and several faculty members took leaves of absence this year, Herron was expected to make up for the lack of courses in addition to fulfilling her heavy administrative duties...
...Black women faculty members at Harvard, Herron serves as a frequent adviser to minority students. Often minority students come to her for advice not because they are interested in her area of expertise, literature, but because she is a role model. In addition, Herron says she has spent extra time expanding course offerings in her department, which is not a mainstream, fully developed department such as History or Government...
Assistant Professor of Afro-American StudiesCarolivia Herron is an extreme case of the excessdemands placed on women faculty. As one of twoBlack women faculty members, Herron says shespends a disproportionate amount of her timedealing with women's issues. "Everything aboutBlack women comes to me," says Herron, whose fieldis not women's studies, but rather the epic inliterature. "I don't study it, I live it," shesays, adding that she would prefer to concentrateon her chosen field of study...
...pressure on scholarship is very bad,"Herron says. She is also head tutor of theAfro-American Studies Department, a position thatentails many other administrative duties...