--- On Tue, 4/22/08, Chris Brooke <chris.brooke at balliol.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> From: Chris Brooke <chris.brooke at balliol.ox.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] I Hate Daniel Goldhagen. (Was Re: Reading suggestions needed
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 3:01 AM
> On 22/4/08 03:23, "andie nachgeborenen"
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > And it got him tenure at Harvard, which
> > tells you more about Harvard than Goldhagen...
>
> It would, if true, but it's not true: Harvard never
> gave tenure to
> Goldhagen. (He was once an associate prof. In the
> Government Department, but
> they don't have tenure at Harvard; he never applied for
> tenure, and, if he
> had, Harvard wouldn¹t have been able to tenure him without
> tearing up most
> of its existing procedures regarding confidential peer
> review, etc.)
> Goldhagen did teach at Harvard for years after Hitler's
> Willing Executioners
> came out, I think, but mostly it's been part-time
> teaching in the Social
> Studies program, which I imagine is on a fairly ad hoc
> basis (though they
> probably called him a "lecturer" rather than an
> "adjunct").
>
> Chris
>
>
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