Five humanities departments face cuts

Serious cuts to anthropology and archaeology departments at New Zealand’s University of Otago

 

University pro-vice chancellor of humanities Prof Tony Ballantyne said the departments to undergo a formal management of change process were anthropology and archaeology, English and linguistics, history (with probable cuts in art history), languages and cultures, and musicc.

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Photo : Nathan Hughes Hamilton

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Two social anthropologists, Associate Professor Jacqueline Leckie and Dr Gautam Ghosh, have been made redundant from the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Otago through a ‘Management of Change’ process. There will now be two social anthropologists teaching in a department of eight permanent academic staff.