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...addition of three new professors—Professor of Government and Afro-American Studies Michael C. Dawson, Assistant Professor of English and Afro-American Studies Glenda Carpio, and most recently Evelynn Hammonds??is a positive move. It is heartening to see that the University moved quickly to replenish the intellectual capital that was diminished when Appiah and West decamped to Princeton...
...also important to make progress towards diversifying the Faculty. In addition to Hammonds?? manifest qualifications, it is encouraging to see another black woman receive tenure; Hammonds is only the fourth black woman out of the 442 tenured Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) professors. The lack of women and minority Faculty has been a long-standing problem in FAS—which is particularly startling because, as Hammonds says, the presence of minority faculty supports and inspires minority students in their own work...
Rebuilding the Afro-American studies department will be a long process, and addressing the historic imbalance in the Faculty will take even longer. But Hammonds?? arrival is a solid start, and we look forward to similarly impressive appointments in the future...
During this time, she says, she realized that there were “only four or five African American students studying physics [at the graduate level] in the country.” This realization sparked Hammonds?? interest in understanding the dearth of blacks in the scientific community...
...Hammonds?? tenure fits into a larger commitment to tenuring underrepresented minorities to the Faculty. As of last spring, the Faculty comprised 637 active members, 442 of whom were tenured. Until Hammonds?? appointment, only two of these active, tenured professors were black women...