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Though Appiah cited personal reasons for his departure, his exit follows a much-publicized spat between University President Lawrence H. Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 that has led to speculation that West and other members of the Afro-American studies department were considering leaving Harvard...
Dawson, who received his doctorate from Harvard’s government department in 1986, said his decision to leave Chicago was influenced by Harvard’s collection of top academics in Afro-American studies that department chair and DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. has assembled over the past decade...
According to Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and of Afro-American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo, Dawson’s arrival bolsters the social sciences within the Afro-American studies department...
didn’t have,” said Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham...
...It’s important for Harvard and the American academy in general to acknowledge the great contributions that African-American scholars have made,” Dawson said. “It’s important that the [Afro-American studies] department continue to receive the strong institutional support that it’s received in the past...