Word: afro
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When University President Lawrence H. Summers locked horns with members of the Afro-American studies department earlier this year, Harvard’s commitment to diversity was called into question by members of the University community and the national press...
Former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 taught at the Divinity School and FAS, while K. Anthony Appiah held appointments to both the Afro-American studies and philosophy departments. Anne-Marie Slaughter was a professor both at Harvard Law School and in the FAS government department. All three departed for Princeton...
...April, Southern received the National Humanities Medal. In 1975, Southern was appointed to a joint professorship in Afro-American studies and music by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. One year later, she became the second chair in the history of the fledgling Afro-American studies department, a position which she held until...
Last year, Harvard lost one of its star professors, philosophy and Afro-American studies professor K. Anthony Appiah, because he couldn’t stand the commute anymore...
...after Summers and new Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean William C. Kirby successfully lobbied the Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. to stay at Harvard, that controversy subsided...