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While faculty can name a number of cases that have irked them, freshest on the minds of many is that of Lawrence D. Bobo, the former Diker and Tishman professor of sociology and of African and African American studies, and his wife, Marcyliena Morgan, formerly an associate professor of African and African American studies. The pair left for Stanford at the end of last semester after Summers reportedly denied Morgan tenure, even though one professor told The Crimson that she was approved unanimously by her department...
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...
This year, the department lost another three faculty members—Dawson, Bobo, and Bobo’s wife Marcyliena Morgan. And now another professor, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, who is an assistant professor of the history of art and architecture and of African and African American studies, says she may leave as well. Shaw, who does not have tenure at Harvard, will be a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania next year, and she says she hopes to receive a tenure offer there...
...Skip Gates is one of the true intellectual giants of our time,” Lawrence D. Bobo, the former Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, wrote in an e-mail. “He built and still presides over—despite all of its recent set-backs—the most important African and African American Studies department in the world...
Earlier this year, Bobo moved to Stanford University with his wife, Marcyliena Morgan, who was associate professor of African and African American Studies. Professor of Government and African and African American Studies Michael C. Dawson announced a few weeks ago that he will move to the University of Chicago next year...