Word: professors
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...This professor is one of Harvard's few feminist scholars. Soon, I suppose, she will be gone...
...main topic on the professor's mind was the job market. She said that she had been offered tenured positions at two other universities. She said she would probably accept one of them...
...ironic thing about it is that this professor, as with the several other feminist scholars on Harvard's faculty, is affiliated with a department rather than the Women's Studies program here. Sure, her name is listed in the course catalog under the heading of "Faculty of the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies." Certainly, her departure will be felt most keenly by those scholars--in all disciplines--who work together on feminist topics. And, yes, her work is valued most by those who come together under the rubric of women's studies...
What this professor has learned, and what generations of Harvard bureaucrats have always known, is that autonomy is a sign of power. Women's Studies at Harvard has neither...
...when you look at who's making it. Harvard was the second to last school in the Ivy League to establish a Women's Studies program--a step which it took only three years ago. Since then, it has made only one tenured appointment in women's studies--to Professor of History and Women's Studies Olwen Hufton. And only one other person even holds any kind of faculty appointment in women's studies--Lecturer in Women's Studies Alexandra Owen, the concentration's head tutor...