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...Keely and Du. No play was more topical than pseudonymous Jane Martin's what-if about right- to-life extremists kidnapping a pregnant woman and holding her until it is too late to abort. The Actors Theatre of Louisville production, also seen at Hartford Stage, subtly traced the evolving bond between the streetwise captive (Julie Boyd) and a captor (a superb Anne Pitoniak...
...W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis. The first of a planned two parts, this volume tracks the controversial black intellectual from his middle-class roots in Massachusetts to Paris for the 1918 Pan-African Congress. Lewis reveals the crusading editor and author of The Souls of Black Folk to be an aloof thinker struggling with contradictory ideas about racial inclusion and separatism...
...vacate his post this June. Despite losses that have superficially damaged the department’s reputation, a closer look reveals that it is stronger and more sophisticated than ever. From the AAAS family’s increased focus on African Studies, to the opening of a newly unified Du Bois Institute (the department’s research arm), to the five recently-extended tenure offers to new professors, Gates is confident that he will finish his 15 years as Department Chair triumphantly...
...Professor Gates is a prodigious recruiter,” says Karen C.C. Dalton, the current Assistant Director of the Du Bois Institute. “We’re incredibly fortunate to be able to attract really top-flight people, and in the end, when you’ve got great minds and great energy, good things happen...
...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...