Amherst College has thoroughly repudiated Lord Amherst (http://amherststudent.amherst.edu/?q=article/2016/02/03/board-trustees-rejects-lord-jeff http://amhersts

Amherst College has thoroughly repudiated Lord Amherst (http://amherststudent.amherst.edu/?q=article/2016/02/03/board-trustees-rejects-lord-jeff http://amherststudent.amherst.edu/?q=article/2016/02/03/boar...), and I have no desire to defend him. Regardless of the name, Amherst College is very highly respected in the social sciences, which (collectively at least), are very much in favor of careful, thoughtful study of cultures not their own. It shows up in the top-twenty (often much higher) of nearly every ranking for which it is eligible. That said, if that one fact is enough for you to disregard this professor's fifty-years of research, I don't think we can have a further discussion. Good luck to you.