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...department of African-American Studies celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2004. Although Af-Am has now been a fixture at Harvard for a generation, it wasn’t until 1991, when Gates took charge as Department Chair, that it truly embarked on its rise to greatness...
President Neil L. Rudenstine, who served at the helm of the University from 1991 to 2001, gave Gates carte blanche to build the best Af-Am Studies Department in the world. With the President’s stamp of approval, Gates embarked on the task of recruiting the best scholars he could find...
...From 1993 to 2001, the department could do no wrong under the leadership of Gates, former Carswell Professor K. Anthony Appiah, and former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74. More than 500 students regularly packed West’s introductory course in Afro-American Studies, Af-Am 10, eager to experience his dynamic lectures. Gates palled around with Bill Clinton (the man whom Toni Morrison referred to as our first black president). Gates, West, and the whole Af-Am team were an academic powerhouse...
Gates insists that the increased emphasis on African studies reflects his master strategy for the department. “It was always my plan that we would build in Af-Am Studies first,” he says, “And then build in African Studies...
...Just as we now have the finest department of Af-Am Studies,” he says, displaying his infectious bravado, “Once we recruit these people…Harvard will also be the leading center for African Studies in the United States...