Posted on 09/12/2007 1:01:09 AM PDT by Cincinna
A tenure bid by an assistant professor of anthropology at Barnard College who has critically examined the use of archaeology in Israel has put Columbia University once again at the center of a struggle over scholarship on the Middle East.
The professor, Nadia Abu El-Haj, who is of Palestinian descent, has been at Barnard since 2002 and has won many awards and grants, including a Fulbright scholarship and fellowships at Harvard and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Barnard has already approved her for tenure, officials said, and forwarded its recommendation to Columbia University, its affiliate, which has the final say.
It is Dr. Abu El-Haj’s book, “Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society,” that has made her a lightning rod, setting off warring petitions opposing and supporting her candidacy, and producing charges of shoddy scholarship and countercharges of an ideological witch hunt.
Judith R. Shapiro, Barnard’s president, who is also an anthropologist, said in a statement that the tenure process was “one of the linchpins of academic freedom and liberal arts education,” and that despite the passions, it must be conducted “thoughtfully, comprehensively, systematically and confidentially.” She added, “This case will be no different, both in its rigor and its freedom from outside lobbying.”
The fracas is one of a growing list of bitter disputes over the Middle East in academe, including charges a few years ago by Jewish students at Columbia that they were being intimidated by professors of Middle Eastern studies. A university investigation found no evidence of anti-Semitic statements by professors, but it criticized one professor for becoming angry at a student in his class in a discussion of Israel’s conduct
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Why would Arabs ransack Joseph's tomb if he was a Palestinian and not a Jew?
Stupid is as stupid does, I guess.
(related) blast from the past
Of Intellectual Bondage
(Extreme Danger of Marxist University Professors in a Democratic Nation)
The Jerusalem Post | Dec. 26, 2003 | Caroline Glick
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1046983/posts
That pretty well summarizes it for me.
Care to provide evidence, or do you just want to make sweeping generalizations about “religionists”?
The scientific methods of archaeology in the Middle East since the middle of the 1850’s have been exhaustively and forthrightly accounted for by hundreds and thousands of published reports and first-hand accounts. Your sweeping generalization is simply not supported by anything that resembles the published evidence.
(not to mention that clown in Wisconsin, and the fraud Ward Churchill)
Students Fight Back Introducing NoIndoctrination.org
NRO | 12/2/2002 | Stanley Kurtz
Posted on 12/02/2002 10:12:29 AM EST by geedee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/799125/posts
Terror Teacher-
Columbia’s Nicholas De Genova message of “Death to America!”
various FR links | 03-31-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
Posted on 03/31/2003 9:10:20 AM EST by backhoe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/880687/posts
“... who is of Palestinian descent”
Could someone explain to me what that means? (/off rhetorical sarc)
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