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...Good things” is an understatement. From 1993 to 2001, the department could do no wrong under the leadership of Gates, former Carswell Professor K. Anthony Appiah, and former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74. More than 500 students regularly packed West’s introductory course in Afro-American Studies, Af-Am 10, eager to experience his dynamic lectures. Gates palled around with Bill Clinton (the man whom Toni Morrison referred to as our first black president). Gates, West, and the whole Af-Am team were an academic powerhouse...
That photo features Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Af Am’s chair since 1991, and a department mainstay even as other high-profile professors—including Cornel R. West ’74, K. Anthony Appiah, Lawrence D. Bobo, and Michael C. Dawson—have come and gone...
Former Fletcher University Professor West’s departure for Princeton in 2002 after a bitter public dispute with University President Lawrence H. Summers heralded the end of the Af Am “dream team.” That same year, Appiah, the former Carswell professor of African American studies, also went to Princeton, citing personal reasons...
After an introduction by Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton K. Anthony Appiah, Soyinka himself took the podium. Soyinka read “A Digression on the Purpose of Accident,” an excerpt from a memoir-in-progress he expects to publish next year...
...with the departures of West, Appiah, Bobo, and Morgan, Harvard’s loss of Dawson is another institution’s gain...