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West, one of the premier intellectuals in the fields of Afro-American studies and religion, announced Tuesday that he would leave Princeton next fall for a joint tenured appointment in the Department of Afro-American Studies and the Divinity School. The scholar will begin teaching...
Students and professors yesterday praised the appointment of Afro-American studies scholar Cornel R. West '74, saying it marks the rejuvenation of Harvard's Afro-Am department...
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...