FIELD NOTES
Profitable Ph.D.s/Kinsey on display/Making the grade, and more
BREAKTHROUGH BOOKS
Ireland
INSIDE PUBLISHING
Bedlam, Bath & Beyond/The road from IKEA/Shake 'n Bake scholars, and
more
The Man Who Knew Too Much
As a professor of sociology at Colby College, Adam Weisberger asked his
students to write candidly about their experiences with power and authority.
But after a group of female students accused him of probing too deeply into
their lives, he saw his own authority under fire and his bid for tenure
derailed. Now, the angry professor seeks vindicationand he's using the law
to get it.
BY RUTH SHALIT
Restoration Drama
Ever since the much-heralded restoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling,
restorers have been gleefully going about their business of sprucing up
the world's greatest art works. Columbia Renaissance specialist James Beck
wants them to stop. But
will he persuade conservators to leave well enough alone?
BY DANIEL ZALEWSKI
Return of the Natives
When your subjects edit your manuscript, is it kosher to complain? An Israeli
anthropologist discovers that his research on a gay synagogue is a recipe
for trouble.
BY EMILY NUSSBAUM
Special Supplement: Jobtracks
Who got hired where.
Tenurings and hirings to tenure, by discipline (p. 58)
Junior hirings, by discipline and graduate training (p. 69)
HYPOTHESES
Did Kurt Gödel find a flaw in the Constitution?
Jim Holt investigates.
