Word: african-american
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...committee can’t make faculty appointments, it can’t really mount courses,” says Watts Professor of Music Kay K. Shelemay. African-American Studies provided “a very logical home” for African Studies...
...hasn’t been an easy three years for the long-time Chair of African and African-American Studies (AAAS). The department that Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. had turned into a Harvard institution and arguably the best field of its kind in the world has recently lost some of its brightest academic stars. Cynical commentators have called...
...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...
Blocks from the Barker Center, the voices are softer, but the message is just as resounding. Tucked away in a nondescript Brattle Square office building at 104 Mt. Auburn St. is a brand-new facility that specializes in research and fellowships on African and African-American Studies...
...Institute will house office space for a yearly-rotating group of 12 to 15 fellows in African and African-American research. It will also be home to a gallery space and play host to several long-term research initiatives, including Dalton’s own pet project, the Images of Black and Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, as well as the African-American National Biography Project. The Institute will also serve as the hub of a new publication, the Du Bois Review: Social Science of Race, to be edited by Lawrence Bobo and Michael Dawson, who continue...