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Both Carswell Professor of Philosophy and Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah, who announced in January his decision to leave for Princeton for personal reasons, and West did much for the department’s scholarship, image and attractiveness to students...
...Anthony Appiah is irreplaceable,” Gates said in January. “He is the most brilliant philosopher of Afro-American studies at work today...
With the loss of two renowned faculty members, the Afro-American studies department is likely to face a harder task in recruiting new scholars to come to Cambridge...
Within the University, scholars such as West and Appiah, who are valued members of other departments and schools, lend a certain degree of legitimacy to Afro-American studies in an environment where non-traditional fields are frequently met with skepticism...
...Over the past six or seven years, the Harvard community and much of the nation was convinced by the Dream Team that scholars of the Afro-American experience had much to contribute to that lofty mission,” says Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and Afro-American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo...