Jamison declined to comment.

Concentrators and graduate students expressed great concern over the loss of Jamison.

“We’re all quite shocked that Professor Jamison was denied tenure,” Sanskrit concentrator Meghan C. Howard ’04 wrote in an e-mail. “She’s an exceptional scholar and most likely the best Sanskrit teacher you could find. Indeed, the Sanskrit department is a wonderful place to be a student, in a large part thanks to Professor Jamison.”

Bol said that the new concentration in Asian Studies is likely to have tracks in both the study of East Asia and South Asia but offer overlapping joint tutorials. Other details, including whether current concentrators will have the name of the new concentration or their old one on their diplomas, have yet to be worked out.

Leonard van der Kuijp, chair of the Sanskrit and Indian studies department, could not be reached for comment yesterday.

—Staff writer Dan Rosenheck can be reached at rosenhec@fas.harvard.edu.