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Sticking mostly to scholarly concerns, Hammonds did touch upon current affairs, including the rise of mixed-race presidential candidate Barack Obama. She discussed the norm of using phenotypic, rather than genotypic, racial identification. Obama is just as much Caucasian as he is African American, she emphasized, though he is identified...
Freshmen crowded into Emerson Hall yesterday for one of their first chances to hear new College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds.
Hammonds took over the College’s highest office on June 1, though she was named to the position in March. Prior to her appointment, she was the University’s senior vice president for development and diversity.
Tenured in both the History of Science department and the African and African American studies department, Hammonds showed that she is settling in to her new position of prominence within the College: she began her talk seven minutes late, the time undergrads are allowed to stroll into class.
Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Allan M. Brandt were present to welcome the newcomers: former Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dean Peter T. Ellison, former History department chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74, zoologist Farish...