Word: marcyliena
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...short-lived. West decamped to Princeton 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...
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...
According to Gates, “The decision not to promote Marcyliena Morgan had a chain reaction, leading to the departures of Lawrence Bobo and Michael Dawson...
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...
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...