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...violence among a small number of gang-involved offenders.”Conflicts between Boston gangs are not being settled quickly and effectively enough, Braga said, due to what he called a lack of support from law enforcement officers, criminal justice agencies, and community-based groups.Christopher Winship, the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology and author of a published paper on Boston’s success at curbing crime in the 1990s, also cited problems with law enforcement officers and community support groups as contributing to increasing violent crime.He said the sudden increase in Boston’s crime...
...this “Dream Team” was 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...
Adrift at Harvard, Morgan accepted a tenure offer from Stanford, and Bobo, who is her husband, decided to leave with her. The former Tishman and Diker professor of sociology and of African and African American studies, Bobo was one of the University’s premier sociologists and a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. He also served as acting chair of Af Am while Gates was on leave during the 2003-2004 academic year...
...Skip Gates is one of the true intellectual giants of our time,” Lawrence D. Bobo, the former Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, wrote in an e-mail. “He built and still presides over—despite all of its recent set-backs—the most important African and African American Studies department in the world...