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University Provost Steven E. Hyman has moved to fulfill one of the most important recommendations of the Task Forces on Women, announcing today that Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies Evelynn M. Hammonds would assume the new post of senior vice provost for...
Hammonds, who could not be reached for comment, said in the press release that she intends to conduct a survey of Harvard’s junior faculty in order to shed statistical light on the murky corners of the University’s tenure policy. The survey, developed by researchers...
In today’s press release, University President Lawrence H. Summers described Hammonds as a leader of “vision and pragmatism.”
“I have every confidence that Evelynn Hammonds will take us a long way toward achieving that goal.”
Hammonds, whose academic expertise spans both electrical engineering and African-American history, served this spring as chair of the Task Force on Women Faculty. She has also served on the Standing Committee on Women, the body responsible for initially suggesting the creation of her post.