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After 15 years, the Department of African and African American Studies is changing hands. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the Thomas professor of history and of Af-Am, is the second woman to lead the department, three years shy of its 40th birthday. Former chair Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., who is Du Bois professor of the Humanities, will continue directing the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research...
Higginbotham, a former director of undergraduate studies in the Af-Am department, is known for her academic and advising talents. Indeed, she told The Crimson in a March 22, 1994 article that “If there is a tension in my life it’s because I have always tended to spend a lot of time with students, and I realize that I need to balance that with my right to do my work.” In her newest role, the tension will “probably be business as usual for me,” said...
...Gates’ first hires, Higginbotham arrived while he was expanding what would become widely known as the most prestigious Af-Am program...
...Study of Religion] I would like to answer this question through a drawing of the Prophet Mohammed. 5) [Women, Gender, and Sexuality] To be honest, I only took this course to pick up girls. I haven’t the slightest idea what systems of oppression even means. 6) [Af-Am] I learned everything I need to know about this subject from watching “The Disorderlies,” so here goes: 7) [Bits] 10010101...2! LOLZ 8) [Government] I’m just a bill/Yes, I’m only a bill/And I’m sittin?...
He’s not the only one to experience Gates’ charm. Gates—who has built the Af-Am Department into a powerhouse over his decade-and-a-half at its helm—says he has sent flowers to every single scholar he has tried to recruit...