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That photo features Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Af Am’s chair since 1991, and a department mainstay even as other high-profile professors—including Cornel R. West ’74, K. Anthony Appiah, Lawrence D. Bobo, and Michael C. Dawson—have come and gone...
...next academic year, Gates will step down as chair and hand over the reins of a department that, for the past 15 years, has been uniquely his. When he arrived, Harvard Af Am had only one senior professor and a handful of students, but under Gates’ leadership the department rose to the pinnacle of its field during the late 1990s...
...since the department’s heyday, Af Am has stumbled upon troubled times...
Former Fletcher University Professor West’s departure for Princeton in 2002 after a bitter public dispute with University President Lawrence H. Summers heralded the end of the Af Am “dream team.” That same year, Appiah, the former Carswell professor of African American studies, also went to Princeton, citing personal reasons...
...only Nathan I. Huggins—one of three historians offered tenure to the Af Am department—signed a contract...