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Prominent Afro-American studies and religion scholar Cornel R. West '74 yesterday accepted a tenured professorship in the Afro-American Studies Department and Harvard Divinity School...
West, now professor of religion and director of the Afro-American Studies Program at Princeton, will arrive in July 1994 and begin teaching in the fall of 1995, said W.E.B. Dubois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Afro-American Studies Department...
...appointment of West, who refused a position in the Afro-American Studies Department in 1990, is a great coup for a department which had only one tenured faculty member in 1989, Gates said...
West, 40, is the author of the best-selling Race Matters as well as articles and books including Prophecy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity, Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America and Post Analytic Philosophy. He has taught at Princeton, Yale and Union Theological Seminary and was a visiting scholar at the Divinity School...
Epps shut down the Office of Race Relations and Minority Affairs two weeks ago. He has also consolidated a faculty committee led by Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah and the Operations Committee into the Faculty Race Relations Advisory Committee (FRRAC) to the Foundation. Epps chairs the FRRAC...