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...this “Dream Team” was short-lived. West decamped to Princeton after a very public spat with University President Lawrence H. Summers in 2002, and Appiah, who had announced his resignation before West did, accompanied him. Then, last year, Tishman Professor Lawrence D. Bobo left for Stanford with his wife, Professor Marcyliena Morgan, after Summers denied her tenure. Professor Gwendolyn Du Bois Shaw, meanwhile, left to be a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Finally, after Professor Michael C. Dawson returned to the University of Chicago this fall, the bloodletting was over...
...project, the Images of Black and Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, as well as the African-American National Biography Project. The Institute will also serve as the hub of a new publication, the Du Bois Review: Social Science of Race, to be edited by Lawrence Bobo and Michael Dawson, who continue to be cozy with the Du Bois despite their relocation to Stanford...
...planned this carefully all spring,” he says. “It took us nine months and we decided that once Bobo and Morgan announced they would leave, that the department would be in a crisis if we didn’t act and act expeditiously...
...department recover the sense of electricity and sheer excitement circa 1996-2000? Probably not,” Bobo writes in an e-mail. “But will it continue to serve the Harvard community well and lead the nation for some time to come? Without a doubt...
Thomas Holt, a professor of history at the University of Chicago who used to hold an appointment in Harvard’s Af Am department, says there is little doubt that the losses of Dawson and Bobo, both social scientists, have diminished the department’s strength in that area. But he does say that weakness in that area “is only a recent development and does not reflect any long-term trend in the department’s focus...