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Rudolph Bell, professor of history at Rutgers, yesterday called Laiou a "mainstay" of the department and said he feels "very badly" that she will leave Rutgers. "We made a very generous alternative offer which after much consideration she turned down," he said...
...appointment of the 40-year-old Laiou fills a vacancy in Byzantine history that opened in the department after Robert L. Wolff, Coolidge Professor of History and Byzantine specialist, died last fall...
...Laiou's is the fifth tenured appointment made by the department within the past two years. The rash of appointments stems from the department's desire to fill spots vacated by professors who either died of left, David J. Herlihy, Lea Professor of Medieval History, said yesterday...
...Rutgers, where she came in 1975 after spending three years as an associate professor of history at Brandeis University. Laiou is "known for very high standards" and is "a popular teacher--not an extraordinarily popular one but a well-received one." Bell said. "We think she's probably the best young Byzantinist in the country," he added...
History Department professors here also laud the selection of Laiou, who will become the second tenured woman in the department's history. Helen Cam taught in the department several decades ago as Stone-Radcliffe Professor--a chair reserved for a woman and now held by Emily D.T. Vermeule...