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content: Karp, Ivan
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content: Ivan Karp papers
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content: Ivan Karp papers / Series 6: Born Digital Files / 6.4: Recommendations and Reviews
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content: 1979 December-2011 June
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Karp wrote letters of recommendation for a large number of people, often for many years for a range of different purposes. This folder contains letters for jobs, grants and fellowships, tenure and promotion reviews, and other ad hoc situations. He
regularly wrote letters for MacArthur foundation nominations and was himself a MacArthur nominator in the 1990s. A few files here are reviews of article manuscripts. The letters were written for Karp's former graduate students at Indiana, Catholic University, and Emory; over time they became colleagues and he continued to write for some as their careers developed further. He also wrote for a wide range of colleagues and friends in many fields. There are also a few letters for former employees.

Note that a number of files appear to be VLC media files, although they are not. This is likely because Karp used the suffix .rec in naming files, which seems to have been read as VLC at some point, though they are actually text or wpd files.

The subfolder "EmoryFulbrightEvaluations" includes a few commentaries that Karp wrote on student proposals when he chaired Emory's graduate student Fulbright process. He re-organized the process so that students submitted proposals in advance and went through an on-campus interview with the Fulbright committee. They then received summary comments from the committee, had a chance to revise and resubmit, and the committee reviewed and ranked those final applications for submission. His new process nearly doubled the number of Fulbright awards that Emory students received. This folder has just a handful of the commentaries Karp did. More may have been in his email, composed as he wrote the message.