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Wilson follows the 1993 appoint ment of noted scholar and author Cornel West '74 to a position in the Department of Afro-American Studies...
...interview yesterday afternoon, Wilson said he decided to come to Harvard because the University has achieved a "critical mass" of outstanding scholars in sociology, Afro-American studies, law, political science and education...
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the W.E.B. DuBois professor of the humanities and chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, said in a Kennedy School press release that Wilson's appointment positions Harvard to assume a national leadership role in shaping public policy decisions regarding race and class...
...addition to the Kennedy School appointment, Wilson will also serve on the Advisory Board of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, be a voting member of the Department of Afro-American Studies and hold an affiliation with the Department of Sociology...
Wilson is the latest in a series of recent appointments of distinguished scholars to Harvard's Afro-American studies program, in what Provost Albert Carnesale dubbed a "self-conscious effort" to build a concentration of academicians in that area...