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Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah, who served on the search committee that brought Blier to Harvard, said members of his department encouraged her to accept the tenure offer...
...Blier called Gates' involvement "critical" in her decision to come to Harvard...
Appiah, the head tutor of Afro-Am, said Blier's work as an Africanist will boost his department's capacity for comparative studies...
...addition to courses on Africa, Blier is currently teaching courses on theory and issues of colonialism. Her research centers on Western African art and traditions...
...Blier is author of a number of books, most recently The Danger of Art: Anomie, Alchemy and African Vodun, a study of the voodoo traditions of Haiti, NewOrleans, and Salem, Mass. and their African roots...