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Blind reviews for search committees?

In a fascinating story about Stanley Fish’s successor as Arts and Sciences dean at UIC is a little nugget: the chemistry department is trying the first stage of search committee portfolio reviews blindly, after a staff member strips identifying information about names and institutions from the submitted material. I’m curious; what do you think?