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Student activists have worked to gain support from Faculty members, in particular, convincing some noted scholars from the Afro-American Studies Department to endorse their conferences on ethnic studies. However, these activists need to go farther. Last week, the Faculty Council elected six new members to serve for the next three years. Students should meet with these Faculty members and explain why they think Harvard needs to increase its commitment to the study of ethnicity...
...second tenured professor in Women's Studies, Parks appointment not only brings her expertise into the department but also adds stability. Through her appointment, Harvard can begin to build up its Women's Studies department to attract other leading scholars in the field, following in the footsteps of its Afro-American Studies department, which, after Henry Louis Gates Jr. joined it, became the nation's top program of its kind...
...call to drop the charges against these men has been endorsed by both DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Professor of Afro-American Studies and of the Philosophy of Religion Cornel R. West '74, according to Daley...
...recent years, Jones has also shown his commitment to Harvard. He recently gave a guest lecture in an Afro-American Studies class, and before that, played a key role in endowing the Quincy Jones visiting associate professorship of African-American Music that brought the popular Dwight D. Andrews of Emory University and his course Music 131: "History of Jazz" to Harvard students...
This year's series is titled "The Burden of Memory and the Muse of Remission." It is co-sponsored by the Department of Afro-American Studies, the Du Bois Institute on Afro-American Research, and Oxford University Press...