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Article: Asian American studies still waiting for an entrance at Harvard
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- December 10, 2007
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Vidya B Viswanathan & Maeve T. Wang
University Wire
12-10-2007
(Harvard Crimson) (U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In 1987, Mark H. Kuo '90 helped collect hundreds of student signatures to petition Harvard University to hire an Asian American studies professor.
Twenty years later, it's deja vu.
The University still has no permanent professor in Asian American studies, and the Asian American Association (AAA) is starting yet another campaign to bring the field to Harvard.
Despite years of flourishing at other universities, Asian American studies is still struggling to gain traction in Cambridge. The former chair of Harvard's history department says that a general slowdown in social science and ...