[lbo-talk] I Hate Daniel Goldhagen. (Was Re: Reading suggestions needed

C. G. Estabrook galliher at uiuc.edu
Wed Apr 23 19:44:08 PDT 2008


Chris Brooke wrote:


> ... 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").

Harvard of course gives tenure, and Goldhagen was an associate professor of government and social studies, a tenured position. --CGE



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