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...Af-Am Chair Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham said that the change of leadership in the University was one factor that made Morgan and Bobo’s return possible...
...creation of an Afro-American studies concentration—instead of the creation of a committee—University administrators finally reneged on their decision on April 22, 1969 after protests by student and faculty. While this creation story is well-publicized both in Harvard history and on the Af-Am department’s Web site, what is largely obscured in the department’s history is the way these debates continued to inform the creation of the struggling department throughout the seventies and early eighties...
...This dearth of African studies was to remain until former Af Am Chair and Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. and other faculty members could argue effectively for the University and FAS to consider seriously the issue of Africa in relation to the department’s pedagogical goals...
...According to the current chair of Af Am, Thomas Professor of History and of African-American Studies Evelyn Higginbotham, the name change came about naturally in 2003 when Af Am faculty and the Committee of African Studies decided to bring a proposal for an African studies concentration—long in the works—before then-University President Lawrence H. Summers and the Faculty...
...offer was extended to Morgan, currently the executive director of Stanford University’s Hiphop Archive. It is not known whether Morgan has accepted the offer, and she could not be reached for comment. “I am overjoyed,” Professor of Anthropology and of Af-Am Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82 said of Morgan’s possible arrival. “First, because she has unique gifts to bring to the academy, and she is probably the leading scholar of hip hop and of the collecting and history...