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 [[Category:Tenure controversies|Russell]]
 [[Category:Salutatorians|Russell]]
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 Russell applied for the position in [[2003]], and wrote at length of his experience<ref>[http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2481 Notes from a Rebel Professor - ''Harvard Salient'']</ref>. The person who the MEALAC search committee finally recommended was someone who had been refused tenure several years earlier, and was again rejected by the faculty as a whole. Russell suggests that his ethnicity, his political beliefs, and the politicization of MEALAC prevented a fair consideration of his qualifications. There is merit to his claim in that the MEALAC search committee was unable to find any other qualified candidate who even remotely knew Armenian history, language, or culture and the post continued to be filled on an interim and temporary basis.
-In [[2006]], the search committee reconvened to another attempt to find a permanent occupant for the Armenian chair. Russell again applied, and was again rejected. Unlike in 2003, he was not even invited to deliver a job talk. The final recommendation of the search committee was to offer the post to one of Russell's former students, a scholar of Turkish studies, who wrote one chapter on her dissertation on Armenia, and who does not know the ancient Armenian language. She declined the post after considering the way the search was conducted and her own background and qualifications<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/fall2007/ideology-over-integrity-in-academe.html Ideology over Integrity in Academe - ''Columbia Current'']</ref>. The chair is, again, vacant.
+In [[2006]], the search committee reconvened to another attempt to find a permanent occupant for the Armenian chair. Russell again applied, and was again rejected. Unlike in 2003, he was not even invited to deliver a job talk. The final recommendation of the search committee was to offer the post to one of Russell's former students, a historian of late Medieval Anatolia.  She declined the post after considering the way the search was conducted and her own background and qualifications<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/fall2007/ideology-over-integrity-in-academe.html Ideology over Integrity in Academe - ''Columbia Current'']</ref>. The chair is currently held by a junior scholar of modern Armenian literature who has not yet completed her PhD.
 ==Bias?==

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 ==Teaching Career at Harvard==
-While at Harvard, Russell brought Lit Hum with him &lt;ref&gt;[http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510897 A Small Niche for Great Books - ''Harvard Crimson'']&lt;/ref&gt;. He taught a two-semester freshman seminar course titled, literally, &quot;Literature Humanities&quot;, that lays out in its syllabus that it is a direct adaptation of its Columbia counterpart&lt;ref&gt;[[Media:Russell_Lithum.pdf|Russell's first-semester Harvard Lit Hum syllabus.]]&lt;/ref&gt;. The course was, by far, the most highly-sought after freshman seminar on offer at Harvard, and over 100 students each semester competed for 15 spots, and Russell insisted on interviewing every single one of them in person.
+While at Harvard, Russell brought Lit Hum with him <ref>[http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510897 A Small Niche for Great Books - ''Harvard Crimson'']</ref>. He taught a two-semester freshman seminar course titled, literally, "Literature Humanities", that lays out in its syllabus that it is a direct adaptation of its Columbia counterpart<ref>[[Media:Russell_Lithum.pdf|Russell's first-semester Harvard Lit Hum syllabus.]]</ref>. The course was, by far, the most highly-sought after freshman seminar on offer at Harvard, and over 100 students each semester competed for 15 spots, and Russell insisted on interviewing every single one of them in person.
 Russell received support from former President Lawrence Summers in his attempt to introduce a Great Books curriculum, but faced fierce resistance from the rest of the faculty. While Summers was an enthusiastic and approving adherent of Russell's ideas of reforming undergraduate education as a whole at Harvard College along these lines, his departure leaves many of these plans and endeavours in doubt.
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 The Armenian chair which Russell occupied until his tenure denial in 1992 has been vacant for the last fifteen years, filled with one-year lectureships and visiting professorships. When the last visiting professor was not recommended for advancement in [[2001]], a search committee convened to locate a replacement on a permanent basis.
-Russell applied for the position in [[2003]], and wrote at length of his experience&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2481 Notes from a Rebel Professor - ''Harvard Salient'']&lt;/ref&gt;. The person who the MEALAC search committee finally recommended was someone who had been refused tenure several years earlier, and was again rejected by the faculty as a whole. Russell suggests that his ethnicity, his political beliefs, and the politicization of MEALAC prevented a fair consideration of his qualifications. There is merit to his claim in that the MEALAC search committee was unable to find any other qualified candidate who even remotely knew Armenian history, language, or culture and the post continued to be filled on an interim and temporary basis.
+Russell applied for the position in [[2003]], and wrote at length of his experience<ref>[http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2481 Notes from a Rebel Professor - ''Harvard Salient'']</ref>. The person who the MEALAC search committee finally recommended was someone who had been refused tenure several years earlier, and was again rejected by the faculty as a whole. Russell suggests that his ethnicity, his political beliefs, and the politicization of MEALAC prevented a fair consideration of his qualifications. There is merit to his claim in that the MEALAC search committee was unable to find any other qualified candidate who even remotely knew Armenian history, language, or culture and the post continued to be filled on an interim and temporary basis.
-In [[2006]], the search committee reconvened to another attempt to find a permanent occupant for the Armenian chair. Russell again applied, and was again rejected. Unlike in 2003, he was not even invited to deliver a job talk. The final recommendation of the search committee was to offer the post to one of Russell's former students, a scholar of Turkish studies, who wrote one chapter on her dissertation on Armenia, and who does not know the ancient Armenian language. She declined the post after considering the way the search was conducted and her own background and qualifications&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/fall2007/ideology-over-integrity-in-academe.html Ideology over Integrity in Academe - ''Columbia Current'']&lt;/ref&gt;. The chair is, again, vacant.
+In [[2006]], the search committee reconvened to another attempt to find a permanent occupant for the Armenian chair. Russell again applied, and was again rejected. Unlike in 2003, he was not even invited to deliver a job talk. The final recommendation of the search committee was to offer the post to one of Russell's former students, a scholar of Turkish studies, who wrote one chapter on her dissertation on Armenia, and who does not know the ancient Armenian language. She declined the post after considering the way the search was conducted and her own background and qualifications<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/fall2007/ideology-over-integrity-in-academe.html Ideology over Integrity in Academe - ''Columbia Current'']</ref>. The chair is, again, vacant.
 ==Bias?==
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 ==Teaching Career at Harvard==
-While at Harvard, Russell brought Lit Hum with him <ref>[http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510897 A Small Niche for Great Books - ''Harvard Crimson'']</ref>. He taught a two-semester freshman seminar course titled, literally, "Literature Humanities", that lays out in its syllabus that it is a direct adaptation of its Columbia counterpart<ref>[[Media:Russell_Lithum.pdf|Russell's first-semester Harvard Lit Hum syllabus.]]</ref>. The course was, by far, the most highly-sought after freshman seminar on offer at Harvard, and over 100 students each semester competed for 15 spots, and Russell insisted on interviewing every single one of them in person.
+While at Harvard, Russell brought Lit Hum with him &lt;ref&gt;[http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510897 A Small Niche for Great Books - ''Harvard Crimson'']&lt;/ref&gt;. He taught a two-semester freshman seminar course titled, literally, &quot;Literature Humanities&quot;, that lays out in its syllabus that it is a direct adaptation of its Columbia counterpart&lt;ref&gt;[[Media:Russell_Lithum.pdf|Russell's first-semester Harvard Lit Hum syllabus.]]&lt;/ref&gt;. The course was, by far, the most highly-sought after freshman seminar on offer at Harvard, and over 100 students each semester competed for 15 spots, and Russell insisted on interviewing every single one of them in person.
 Russell received support from former President Lawrence Summers in his attempt to introduce a Great Books curriculum, but faced fierce resistance from the rest of the faculty. While Summers was an enthusiastic and approving adherent of Russell's ideas of reforming undergraduate education as a whole at Harvard College along these lines, his departure leaves many of these plans and endeavours in doubt.
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 The Armenian chair which Russell occupied until his tenure denial in 1992 has been vacant for the last fifteen years, filled with one-year lectureships and visiting professorships. When the last visiting professor was not recommended for advancement in [[2001]], a search committee convened to locate a replacement on a permanent basis.
-Russell applied for the position in [[2003]], and wrote at length of his experience<ref>[http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2481 Notes from a Rebel Professor - ''Harvard Salient'']</ref>. The person who the MEALAC search committee finally recommended was someone who had been refused tenure several years earlier, and was again rejected by the faculty as a whole. Russell suggests that his ethnicity, his political beliefs, and the politicization of MEALAC prevented a fair consideration of his qualifications. There is merit to his claim in that the MEALAC search committee was unable to find any other qualified candidate who even remotely knew Armenian history, language, or culture and the post continued to be filled on an interim and temporary basis.
+Russell applied for the position in [[2003]], and wrote at length of his experience&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2481 Notes from a Rebel Professor - ''Harvard Salient'']&lt;/ref&gt;. The person who the MEALAC search committee finally recommended was someone who had been refused tenure several years earlier, and was again rejected by the faculty as a whole. Russell suggests that his ethnicity, his political beliefs, and the politicization of MEALAC prevented a fair consideration of his qualifications. There is merit to his claim in that the MEALAC search committee was unable to find any other qualified candidate who even remotely knew Armenian history, language, or culture and the post continued to be filled on an interim and temporary basis.
-In [[2006]], the search committee reconvened to another attempt to find a permanent occupant for the Armenian chair. Russell again applied, and was again rejected. Unlike in 2003, he was not even invited to deliver a job talk. The final recommendation of the search committee was to offer the post to one of Russell's former students, a scholar of Turkish studies, who wrote one chapter on her dissertation on Armenia, and who does not know the ancient Armenian language. She declined the post after considering the way the search was conducted and her own background and qualifications<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/fall2007/ideology-over-integrity-in-academe.html Ideology over Integrity in Academe - ''Columbia Current'']</ref>. The chair is, again, vacant.
+In [[2006]], the search committee reconvened to another attempt to find a permanent occupant for the Armenian chair. Russell again applied, and was again rejected. Unlike in 2003, he was not even invited to deliver a job talk. The final recommendation of the search committee was to offer the post to one of Russell's former students, a scholar of Turkish studies, who wrote one chapter on her dissertation on Armenia, and who does not know the ancient Armenian language. She declined the post after considering the way the search was conducted and her own background and qualifications&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/fall2007/ideology-over-integrity-in-academe.html Ideology over Integrity in Academe - ''Columbia Current'']&lt;/ref&gt;. The chair is, again, vacant.
 ==Bias?==
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 ==Education==
-Russell was born and raised in northern [[Manhattan]] and attended high school in the [[Bronx]]. He entered Columbia College in [[1970]] as a [[John Jay Scholar]] and graduated [[salutatorian]] and ''[[summa cum laude]]'' in the Class of 1974. Part of his salutatory address was delivered in ancient Armenian. During his time at Columbia, he was a student of Professor [[Wm. Theodore de Bary]]. He delivered, by almost all accounts, a unique salutatory address, where he spoke at length on his research into Armenian mysticism.
+Russell was born and raised in northern [[Manhattan]] and attended Bronx High School of Science. He entered Columbia College in [[1971]] as a [[John Jay Scholar]], was informed at the close of his freshman year that he was to be a junior the following year, and graduated [[salutatorian]] and ''[[summa cum laude]]'' in the Class of 1974. Part of his salutatory address was delivered in ancient Armenian. During his time at Columbia, he was a student of Professors Nina Garsoian and[[Wm. Theodore de Bary]]. He delivered, by almost all accounts, a unique salutatory address, where he spoke at length on his research into Armenian mysticism.
 Following his time at Columbia, he obtained a B.Litt. (the equivalent of an [[MA]]) at [[Oxford]] on the [[Kellett Fellowship]], and his [[PhD]] at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in [[1982]].
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 ==Teaching Career at Columbia==
-Russell joined the Columbia faculty shortly after earning his PhD, teaching Armenian language and culture in the MEALAC department. His passion, however, was teaching undergraduates in the Core Curriculum, especially [[Lit Hum]]. He is noted for inviting students up to his apartment near Fort Tyron Park, where he would cook, entertain, and discuss every topic at hand. Russell's Lit Hum sections quickly became some of the most highly-sought-after courses at Columbia College in the 1980s.
+Russell joined the Columbia faculty shortly after earning his PhD, teaching Armenian language and culture as well as ancient Iranian languages in the MEALAC department. His passion, however, was teaching undergraduates in the Core Curriculum, especially [[Lit Hum]]. He is noted for inviting students up to his apartment near Fort Tyron Park, where he would cook, entertain, and discuss every topic at hand. Russell's Lit Hum sections quickly became some of the most highly-sought-after courses at Columbia College in the 1980s.
 ===Denial of Tenure by MEALAC===
-Russell was denied tenure in [[1992]], a decision he attributes to the steadily politicizing [[MEALAC]] department. Following a short stint as a Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Russell was offered the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies at Harvard in [[1993]], the oldest and most prestigious Armenian professorship in the country.
+Russell was denied tenure in [[1992]], a decision he attributes to the steadily politicizing [[MEALAC]] department. During a 1992-93 stint as a Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Russell was offered the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies at Harvard in [[1993]], the oldest and most prestigious Armenian professorship in the country.
 ==Teaching Career at Harvard==
-While at Harvard, Russell brought Lit Hum with him <ref>[http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510897 A Small Niche for Great Books - ''Harvard Crimson'']</ref>. He teaches a two-semester course titled, literally, "Literature Humanities", that lays out in its syllabus that it is a direct adaptation of its Columbia counterpart<ref>[[Media:Russell_Lithum.pdf|Russell's first-semester Harvard Lit Hum syllabus.]]</ref>. The course is, by far, the most highly-sought after freshman seminar on offer at Harvard, and over 100 students each semester compete for 15 spots, and Russell insists on interviewing every single one of them in person.
+While at Harvard, Russell brought Lit Hum with him <ref>[http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510897 A Small Niche for Great Books - ''Harvard Crimson'']</ref>. He taught a two-semester freshman seminar course titled, literally, "Literature Humanities", that lays out in its syllabus that it is a direct adaptation of its Columbia counterpart<ref>[[Media:Russell_Lithum.pdf|Russell's first-semester Harvard Lit Hum syllabus.]]</ref>. The course was, by far, the most highly-sought after freshman seminar on offer at Harvard, and over 100 students each semester competed for 15 spots, and Russell insisted on interviewing every single one of them in person.
 Russell received support from former President Lawrence Summers in his attempt to introduce a Great Books curriculum, but faced fierce resistance from the rest of the faculty. While Summers was an enthusiastic and approving adherent of Russell's ideas of reforming undergraduate education as a whole at Harvard College along these lines, his departure leaves many of these plans and endeavours in doubt.

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	Nobody knows how many languages Russell knows. When questioned himself, Russell claims it is not important and he doesn't keep track. Most people estimate at least 20. People have verified his fluency and literacy in English, Mandarin Chinese, Persian, Russian and several other Slavic languages, Hebrew, several Armenian dialects, Turkish, and Greek (both ancient and modern).		Nobody knows how many languages Russell knows. When questioned himself, Russell claims it is not important and he doesn't keep track. Most people estimate at least 20. People have verified his fluency and literacy in English, Mandarin Chinese, Persian, Russian and several other Slavic languages, Hebrew, several Armenian dialects, Turkish, and Greek (both ancient and modern).
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		+	Russell's range of knowledge is so extensive and, in some cases, obscure, that Adam Wheeler, a huckster famous for lying his way in, and through Harvard, copied several of Russell's conference talk topics onto his [http://www.thecrimson.com/media/pdf/WheelerResumeMark.pdf famously outrageous fabricated resume].

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