African Studies department at Harvard ... Note title use

[Harold F. Schiffman]

It's nice to know that the NYTimes checks these things out ("we don't know
whether Ms. Morgan prefers...")

The reason I forwarded the orignal message to this list was because it
seemed to signal a major shift in African Studies/Afro-American Studies at
Harvard, which also seems to be happening elsewhere, i.e. to include or
emphasize the study of real languages, instead of the more
speculative/interpretive navel-gazing one finds in some programs.  More
"nuts and bolts" as it were (or am I overanalyzing?)

Hal S.


On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, P. Kerim Friedman wrote:

> I thought Peter's e-mail important enough to raise the issue myself
> with the NY Times. In their e-mail reply they addressed the issue with
> Dr. Morgan, but did not clarify the Prof/Dr. issue - which they seem to
> use interchangeably. Here is there reply:
>