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...Department of African and African American Studies voted unanimously yesterday to push forward with the tenure case of hip hop scholar Marcyliena Morgan, whose last bid for tenure at Harvard two years ago was blocked by then-President Lawrence H. Summers.If Morgan and her husband, sociologist Lawrence D. Bobo, accept Harvard’s entreaties, the move will allow the Af-Am Department to regain some of the star power that it lost during Summers’ five-year term. Bobo previously was the Tishman and Diker professor of sociology and Af-Am studies at Harvard, and Af-Am faculty...
...greatest center for African and African American studies”—a reference that he made possible with the recruitment of a slew of “Dream Team” professors. Even with the departures of members of that coterie, including West, Lawrence Bobo, and Gwendolyn Du Bois Shaw, Gates helped the department weather the exoduses and continued adding to the faculty ranks. Af-Am’s new chair, Higginbotham, leads a department boosted by the arrival of several new professors and an added focus on African Studies.Even in the wake of seven major surgeries since...
...After Summers denied her tenure, former Associate Professor of Af-Am Studies Marcyliena Morgan accepted a tenured position at Stanford University, and her husband, former Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and Af-Am Studies Lawrence D. Bobo, went with...
...bewilderingly scary performance by Robin Williams. “Zathura,” a pseudo-sequel to “Jumanji,” is thankfully nothing like its predecessor. The premise is the same, but this is an entirely different galaxy. Literally. Six-year-old Danny (Jonah Bobo) and ten-year-old Walter (Josh Hutcherson) are left home alone under the unwatchful eye of a bratty older sister, while their single-dad father (Tim Robbins) goes to his office. As any normal fourth grader (with a girlfriend!), Walter is not jumping at the chance to spend quality time with...
Although it was a sticky tenure dispute with President Summers that spurred the departures of Morgan and Bobo, Gates now has only the most sincere praise to offer the Pres. “Five African-American scholars under President Summers have been offered tenure at Harvard since last spring,” he says. “Summers has really stepped up to the plate in terms of his commitment to sustaining the number one status of the department. He’s been a pleasure to work with...