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• THE SCHOLAR EVERYONE SOUGHT: CLDE GAY, HARVARD’S NEXT {MAX-WIDTH:600PX;MARG:0PX TO;PADDG:0PX 20PX;BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;DISPLAY:BLOCK;FONT-SIZE:1.1EM;LE-HEIGHT:1.5EM;LOR:#555;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;}FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC DEAN CLDE GAY WILL MAKE HISTORY ON JULY 1, WHEN SHE WILL BEE THE FIRST PERSON OF LOR AND ONLY THE SEND WOMAN TO LEAD AMERI’S OLST STUTN OF HIGHER TN. BUT SPE GAY’S HISTORIC APPOTMENT, MANY OF HER LLEAGU AND IENDS SAY THEY WERE UNSURPRISED BY HER SELECTN TO HARVARD’S TOP {MAX-WIDTH:600PX;MARG:0PX TO;PADDG:0PX 20PX;BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-FLEX-DIRECTN:ROW;-MS-FLEX-DIRECTN:ROW;FLEX-DIRECTN:ROW;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:JTIFY;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:SPACE-BETWEEN;-MS-FLEX-PACK:JTIFY;JTIFY-NTENT:SPACE-BETWEEN;MARG-TOP:25PX;MARG-BOTTOM:8PX;}{FONT-FAY:'OPEN SANS';LOR:#777;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;FONT-SIZE:12PX;}{FONT-FAY:'OPEN SANS';LOR:#777;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;FONT-SIZE:12PX;} IMG{PADDG-RIGHT:7PX;}BY {LOR:#BA0600;}MIL J. 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GOVERNMENT AT HARVARD NEARLY 25 YEARS AGO, CLDE GAY WAS ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER YOUNG SCHOLARS THE UNTRY.JENNIFER L. HOCHSCHILD, A PRCETON POLICS PROFSOR AT THE TIME, RELLED TRYG TO REC GAY TO THE UNIVERSY — ONLY TO HAVE GAY CHOOSE STANFORD STEAD, WHERE SHE ATTAED TENURE JT FIVE YEARS.AFTER G TO HARVARD, HOCHSCHILD GOT A SEND CHANCE TO PERSUA GAY TO WORK WH HER 2006, WHEN SHE SERVED ON ANOTHER SEARCH MTEE SEEKG TO HIRE GAY.THIS TIME, HOCHSCHILD SUCCEED.SCE THEN, GAY HAS HAD A METEORIC RISE THROUGH HARVARD’S ADMISTRATN. WH A , SHE WAS TAPPED AS AN OF SOCIAL SCIENC. THREE YEARS LATER, SHE WAS APPOTED AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC. LS THAN FIVE YEARS AFTER THAT, ON DEC. 15, 2022, GAY WAS SELECTED AS THE 30TH UNIVERSY PRINT.GAY, 52, WILL MAKE HISTORY ON JULY 1, WHEN SHE WILL BEE THE FIRST PERSON OF LOR AND ONLY THE SEND WOMAN TO LEAD AMERI’S OLST STUTN OF HIGHER TN. BUT SPE GAY’S HISTORIC APPOTMENT, MANY OF HER LLEAGU AND IENDS SAY THEY WERE UNSURPRISED BY HER SELECTN TO HARVARD’S TOP {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;MAX-WIDTH:640PX;Z-X:20;POSN:RELATIVE;} > DIV{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:1EM TO;} > DIV.SHORT-LEFT{FLOAT:LEFT;} > DIV.SHORT-RIGHT{FLOAT:RIGHT;} > DIV.SHORT-SMALL{MAX-WIDTH:200PX;} > DIV.SHORT-MEDIUM{MAX-WIDTH:400PX;} > DIV.SHORT-LARGE{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;} > DIV.SHORT-XLARGE{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;} > DIV.SHORT-FULLSCREEN{PADDG:0PX;}{WIDTH:100%;}{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;MARG:5PX 0PX TO;FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#777;FONT-SIZE:15PX;}FAS DEAN CLDE GAY WAS NAMED HARVARD'S NEXT UNIVERSY PRINT ON DEC. 15, 2022, PPG HER METEORIC RISE TO AMIA'S TOP RANKS. IMG{PADDG-RIGHT:7PX;}BY {LOR:#BA0600;}JULIAN J. GRDANO‘OUTSTANDG FROM THE BEGNG’IN MANY WAYS, GAY IS AN SIR THE ELE AMIC WORLD, HAVG WALKED THE HALLS OF SOME OF THE NATN’S MOST PRTIG STUTNS: PHILLIPS EXETER AMY FOR HIGH SCHOOL, PRCETON AND STANFORD FOR LLEGE, AND HARVARD FOR GRADUATE {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTTHE DGHTER OF HAIAN IMMIGRANTS, GAY WAS BORN AND RAISED NEW YORK WH HER OLR BROTHER, SONY GAY JR. AFTER ATTENDG THE CY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, HER MOTHER BEME A REGISTERED NURSE AND HER FATHER A CIVIL ENGEER.GAY ALSO GREW UP SDI ARABIA, WHERE HER FATHER, SONY GAY SR., WORKED FOR THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGEERS. GAY LATER MOVED BACK TO THE U.S. WHERE SHE LIVED GEIA AND COLORADO, BEFORE ATTENDG THE ELE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL PHILLIPS EXETER AMY NEW HAMPSHIRE.ROXANE GAY, CLDE GAY’S FIRST , SAID SHE BELIEV THE EXPERIENCE OF GROWG UP SEVERAL UNTRI AND CI PREPARED HER FOR A REER OF ADJTG TO NEW CIRCUMSTANC AND CHALLENG.“WHEN YOU LIVE ABROAD YOU HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO NAVIGATE OTHER CULTUR AND YOU HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO NOT NECSARILY ASSIATE, BUT ADAPT,” ROXANE GAY SAID. “IF YOU DO THAT OM AN EARLY AGE, THAT ENABL YOU TO BE ABLE TO THRIVE ALMOST ANY SUATN.”AT EXETER, CLDE GAY PETED ON THE WOMEN’S TRACK TEAM AND SERVED AS DIRECTOR OF CIRCULATN FOR THE SCHOOL’S NEWSPAPER, THE EXONIAN, BEFORE GRADUATG OM THE SCHOOL 1988. HER , ROXANE GAY, ALSO ATTEND THE SCHOOL, GRADUATG 1992. CLDE GAY CURRENTLY SERV AS A TSTEE AT PHILLIPS EXETER.ROXANE GAY SAID HER IS STILL THE SAME AS HER YOUNGER SELF: “VERY ROLUTE AND BADASS AND NFINT OF HER PLACE THE WORLD.”CLDE GAY FIRST ENROLLED PRCETON UNIVERSY AS AN UNRGRADUATE, BUT SHE TRANSFERRED TO STANFORD AFTER HER HMAN YEAR BEE SHE NEED A CHANGE, ACRDG TO A 1989 ARTICLE THE STANFORD DAILY.“PRCETON IS LD, TRADNAL AND STERE. STANFORD HAS A MUCH MORE NURTURG, HUMANE ENVIRONMENT,” GAY TOLD THE STANFORD DAILY. “EVERYBODY AT PRCETON WAS ALREADY MIDDLE-AGED. AT STANFORD PEOPLE ARE WORKG BUT STILL SEEM TO BE HAVG A REALLY GOOD TIME.”GAY MAJORED ENOMICS AT STANFORD AND ALSO SERVED AS A RINT ASSISTANT ON THE SEND FLOOR OF KIMBALL HALL, AN UNRGRADUATE DORMORY.GAY, ONT LEFT, SERVED AS A RINT ASSISTANT AT KIMBALL HALL AS AN UNRGRADUATE AT STANFORD. BY COURTY OF JOHN R. RICKFORDADVERTISEMENTANGELA E. RICKFORD AND JOHN R. RICKFORD, WHO SERVED AS KIMBALL HALL RINT FELLOWS AT THE TIME, SAID THEY RECEIVED AROUND 100 APPLITNS FOR THE POSN OF RINT ASSISTANT BEFORE NARROWG DOWN TO 30 PEOPLE.DURG THE TERVIEW PROCS, THE RICKFORDS DIVIDUALLY EVALUATED EACH APPLINT WH A LETTER GRA. WHEN THEY PARED NOT AT THE END, BOTH REALIZED THEY GAVE AN A+ TO ONLY ONE PERSON: CLDE GAY.“SHE WAS OUTSTANDG OM THE BEGNG,” ANGELA RICKFORD SAID.ANGELA RICKFORD SAID SHE REMEMBERED BEG NERVO THAT GAY WOULD CLE THEIR OFFER — SPE KIMBALL HALL BEG A POPULAR LOTN FOR RINT ASSISTANTS — BEE SHE EXPECTED EVERYONE WOULD TRY TO HIRE GAY.“I REMEMBER SAYG TO JOHN, ‘I DON’T THK WE WILL GET HER BEE IF WE BOTH PENNTLY GAVE HER AN A+, THEN EVERYBODY ELSE WHO IS TERVIEWG HER IS PROBABLY GOG TO GIVE HER A HIGH GRA AND SHE’LL END UP HAVG LOTS OF OPTNS,’” SHE SAID. “BUT, LUCKY FOR , SHE DID CHOOSE .”GAY GRADUATED OM STANFORD 1992, WNG THE ANNA LRA MYERS PRIZE FOR BT SENR THIS THE ENOMICS PARTMENT. SHE MOVED TO HARVARD FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL AND PLETED HER PH.D. 1998, RECEIVG THE TOPPAN PRIZE FOR BT POLIL SCIENCE DISSERTATN.GAY, CENTER, WAS HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER EVEN AS AN UNRGRADUATE RA AT STANFORD, ACRDG TO FORMER KIMBALL HALL RINT FELLOWS ANGELA E. RICKFORD AND JOHN R. RICKFORD. BY COURTY OF JOHN R. RICKFORDRISG THROUGH THE RANKSTAKG THE PODIUM WHERE HARVARD CORPORATN SENR FELLOW PENNY S. PRZKER ’81 HAD JT ANNOUNCED HER AS THE NEXT PRINT, GAY LGHED, SHOOK HER HEAD, AND VERED HER MOUTH DISBELIEF. GAY, THE OTHERWISE FORMAL AND POSED HARVARD ADMISTRATOR, WAS VISIBLY OVERWHELMED BY EMOTN AS SHE FACED THE CHEERG CROWD WHO NOW REGNIZED HER AS THEIR FUTURE LEAR.“THIS IS CRAZY,” GAY SAID, LGHG.ADVERTISEMENTBUT MANY OF GAY’S CURRENT AND FORMER LLEAGU DISAGREE, POTG TO HER TELLECTUAL TALENT, LEARSHIP ABILI, AND PERSONALY.HOCHSCHILD, WHO TGHT SEVERAL HARVARD SEMAR URS ALONGSI THE FUTURE PRINT, SAID GAY’S TALENT WAS EASILY REGNIZABLE OM THE START.“SCE G OUT OF GRADUATE SCHOOL — WHICH OF URSE SHE DID HERE — ’S JT BEEN REAL CLEAR THAT SHE IS JT A VERY HIGH QUALY PERSON,” HOCHSCHILD SAID.BARRY R. WEGAST, A PROFSOR OF POLIL SCIENCE AT STANFORD, SAID THAT GAY STOOD OUT AMONG HER PEERS WHEN SHE STARTED TEACHG AT STANFORD UNIVERSY.“SHE WAS NOT NERVO AS MANY ASSISTANT PROFSORS ARE,” WEGAST SAID. “SHE KNEW WHERE SHE WAS GOG. SHE KNEW WHAT SHE NEED TO DO.”GAY RECEIVED “EARLY TENURE” AT STANFORD AFTER PUBLISHG SEVERAL ARTICL THAT GAED WISPREAD REGNN BEFORE SHE WAS POACHED BY HARVARD 2006, ACRDG TO {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;MAX-WIDTH:100%;Z-X:20;POSN:RELATIVE;} > DIV{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:1EM TO;} > DIV.SHORT-LEFT{FLOAT:LEFT;} > DIV.SHORT-RIGHT{FLOAT:RIGHT;} > DIV.SHORT-SMALL{MAX-WIDTH:200PX;} > DIV.SHORT-MEDIUM{MAX-WIDTH:400PX;} > DIV.SHORT-LARGE{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;} > DIV.SHORT-XLARGE{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;} > DIV.SHORT-FULLSCREEN{PADDG:0PX;}GAY, PICTURED 2007, BEGAN TEACHG AT HARVARD 2006. BY ERIC A. REAVISA SCHOLAR OF POLIL BEHAVR, GAY HAS WRTEN NUMERO ARTICL FOCG ON ISSU OF RACE AND POLICS THE UNED STAT. SHE HAS -EDED A BOOK WH HOCHSCHILD AND TWO OTHER SCHOLARS, BUT SHE HAS NOT THORED A BOOK.“SHE JT THKS VERY CLEARLY,” HOCHSCHILD SAID. “SHE HAS THE PACY TO HONE ON WHAT REALLY MATTERS.”ARIEL WHE, A FORMER GRADUATE STUNT THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT, SAID GAY — THE CHAIR OF HER DISSERTATN MTEE — WAS A “BRILLIANT SCHOLAR” AND SOMEONE SHE WAS LUCKY TO WORK WH.ADVERTISEMENT“SHE ALWAYS LISTENS VERY ATTENTIVELY, AND THEN SHE ASKS THE VERY SIMPLE-SOUNDG QUTNS THAT GET RIGHT TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER,” SHE SAID. “THAT WAS THE THG THAT MA ME REALIZE, ‘OH, THIS IS THE SCHOLAR WHO I WANT READG MY WORK AND REACTG TO AND MAKG BETTER.’”IN 2015, FORMER FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC DEAN MICHAEL D. SMH TAPPED GAY TO SERVE AS AN OF SOCIAL SCIENC.“HER NAME ME UP WH LOTS OF FANTASTIC MENTS BY MANY OF HER LLEAGU ABOUT THE KDS OF SKILLS AND ACTNS THAT SHE’D ALREADY BEEN DOG SIMPLY AS A FACULTY MEMBER WH THE SOCIAL SCIENC,” HE SAID.SMH RELLED BEG “SEVERELY IMPRSED” BY GAY DURG THE HIRG PROCS AND PRAISED HER DILIGENCE AS AN.“I LOVED WORKG WH HER DAY AND DAY OUT ON THE ISSU THAT WOULD E UP,” HE SAID. “WHEN SHE WOULD E TO OUR MEETGS, SHE WAS ALWAYS EXTREMELY WELL-PREPARED, UNRSTOOD THE ISSU THAT WE NEED TO BE TALKG ABOUT WHEN WE HAD DIFFICULT PROBLEMS.”THREE YEARS LATER, HARVARD UNIVERSY PRINT LAWRENCE S. BAW APPOTED GAY TO SUCCEED SMH AS FAS AN.“SHE IS A SCHOLAR OF UNMON CREATIVY AND RIGOR, WH A STRONG WORKG KNOWLEDGE OF THE OPPORTUNI AND CHALLENG FACG THE FAS,” BAW SAID A JULY 2018 PRS RELEASE ANNOUNCG HER APPOTMENT. “SHE RADIAT A NCERN FOR OTHERS, AND FOR HOW WHAT WE DO HERE N HELP IMPROVE LIV FAR BEYOND OUR WALLS.”WHEN BAW ANNOUNCED JUNE 2022 THAT HE WOULD STEP DOWN, DEAN OF ARTS AND HUMANI ROB E. KELSEY SAID HE IMMEDIATELY KNEW WHO BAW’S SUCCSOR SHOULD BE.“MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS THAT DEAN GAY SHOULD BE OUR NEXT PRINT,” HE SAID.GAY BEME AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC 2018 AFTER ONLY THREE YEARS AS A HARVARD ADMISTRATOR, A LTLE OVER A AFTER FIRST JOG THE UNIVERSY AS A PROFSOR. BY ALLISON G. LEEADVERTISEMENT‘RECEPTIVE INSTUTNAL LEAR’AS GAY PREPAR TO MOVE OM UNIVERSY HALL TO MASSACHETTS HALL, LLEAGU SAID THEY EXPECT TELLECTUAL AND MOGRAPHIC DIVERSY TO BE KEY EMS ON HER AGENDA.KELSEY HIGHLIGHTED FACULTY APPOTMENTS AND CURRICULUM CHANG AS IMPORTANT ISSU FOR GAY’S TENURE.“SHE’S BEEN REALLY TERMED TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE THE FACULTY WE NEED TO MEET THE CHALLENG AND TO MATCH THE TERTS OF A NEW GENERATN,” HE SAID. “I THK SHE WILL NTUE TO DO THAT OM MASSACHETTS HALL.”DURG HER TIME AS AN OF THE FAS, GAY WORKED TO BRG MORE ETHNIC STUDI SCHOLARS TO HARVARD, HIRG THREE ETHNIC STUDI PROFSORS LAST YEAR. IN AN APRIL 2022 TERVIEW, GAY SAID SHE SUPPORTS THE CREATN OF AN UNRGRADUATE NCENTRATN ETHNICY, DIGENEY, AND MIGRATN.TAEKU LEE, A GOVERNMENT PROFSOR WHO JOED HARVARD 2022 AS PART OF THE ETHNIC STUDI CLER HIRE, WROTE AN EMAILED STATEMENT THAT HE JOED HARVARD LARGE PART BEE OF GAY’S “VISN FOR AND LEARSHIP ON THE ETHNICY, INDIGENEY, AND MIGRATN IATIVE.”“I AM FILLED WH HOPE FOR THE UNIVERSY AND, NO SURPRISE, FOR THE FUTURE OF ETHNIC STUDI BY HER SELECTN AS HARVARD’S 30TH PRINT,” LEE WROTE.AS PRINT, GAY WILL ALSO FACE A S-OLD MAND FOR AN ETHNIC STUDI PARTMENT.DEAN OF THE SOCIAL SCIENC LAWRENCE D. BOBO SAID GAY “FUNDAMENTALLY HAS BOUGHT TO THE RE ASPIRATNS” OF THE PH FOR A PARTMENT.“SHE HAS WORKED VERY HARD TO BUILD A FACULTY THAT IS NOT ONLY MORE TELLECTUALLY DIVERSE ALONG THE L, BUT REALLY MOGRAPHILLY MORE DIVERSE,” HE SAID. “SHE WILL CERTALY, I WOULD EXPECT, NTUE THAT AS A PRRY.”ADVERTISEMENTGAY, WHO WORKED TO HIRE ETHNIC STUDI SCHOLARS AS FAS AN, IS EXPECTED TO FACE LLS TO FOUND AN ETHNIC STUDI PARTMENT AS PRINT. BY RYAN N. GAJARAWALABOBO SAID HE WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE THE CREATN OF AN ETHNIC STUDI PARTMENT DURG GAY’S TENURE, BUT SAID THAT IS “NOT OBV” TO HIM THAT A PARTMENT IS “THE FORM OUGHT TO TAKE.”“THERE ARE SEVERAL OPTNS HERE,” HE SAID. “I WANT PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO S DOWN AND SIGN KNOWG THAT — IF THEY REACH NSENS ON A PLAN AND LAY OUT THE TELLECTUAL SE FOR — KNOWG THAT THEY’RE GOG TO HAVE A VERY RECEPTIVE STUTNAL LEAR CLDE GAY.”GAY ALSO STEERED THE FAS THROUGH SEVERAL SNDALS RELATED TO SEXUAL HARASSMENT DURG HER TENURE AS AN.IN SUMMER 2019, GAY STRIPPED GOVERNMENT PROFSOR JE I. DOMíNGUEZ OF HIS EMER STAT AND DISVED HIM OM THE FAS MP AFTER AN VTIGATN. GAY ALSO SPEND ENOMICS PROFSOR ROLAND G. FRYER JR., WHO FACED ACCATNS OF SEXUALLY HARASSG -WORKERS. IN 2021, THE SCHOOL RESTATED FRYER’S TEACHG AND REARCH ROL.FOLLOWG A 2020 CRIMSON VTIGATN THAT UNVERED ALLEGATNS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT THE ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT, GAY STRIPPED PROFSOR GARY URTON OF HIS EMER STAT AND SANCTNED PROFSOR JOHN L. COMAROFF FOR VLATG THE SCHOOL’S SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND PROFSNAL NDUCT POLICI.HARVARD FACULTY ALSO PRAISED GAY’S LEARSHIP OF THE FAS AFTER THE COVID-19 PANMIC FORCED STUNTS TO PART MP MARCH 2020.BOBO POTED TO A MEETG EARLY MARCH 2020 WHEN GAY RMED FAS LEARSHIP THAT MP WOULD BE CLOSG AND LEARNG WOULD SHIFT ONLE.“SHE HANDLED THAT MEETG WH EXTRAORDARY APLOMB AND NFINCE AND PLANFULNS,” BOBO SAID. “OVER THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED, SHE EXHIBED WHAT I N ONLY REGARD AS REALLY EXCEPTNAL CLARY OF PURPOSE, STEADS AT THE HELM, AND EXUD A REAL NFINCE THAT WE WERE GOG TO MAKE A VERY DIFFICULT SUATN WORK.”KELSEY AGREED.ADVERTISEMENT“SHE NEVER SEEMED SHAKEN BY THE PANMIC AND THE CHALLENG THAT POSED,” KELSEY SAID. “SHE KEPT THE TEAM TOGETHER.”HOCHSCHILD, WHO SERVED AS THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT CHAIR FOR THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF GAY’S TENURE AS FAS AN, SAID GAY HAS “STRONG VIEWS.”“SHE’S NOT SHY ABOUT EXPRSG THEM OR ABOUT WANTG TO IMPLEMENT THEM WHEN WAS HER JOB TO MAKE A CISN HER ROLE AS AN,” HOCHSCHILD SAID. “BUT SHE’S VERY MTED TO PARTICIPATN THE PROCS OF REACHG THE RIGHT ANSWER.”SMH SCRIBED GAY AS A “STRAIGHTFORWARD” PERSON WHO IS “NOT PLAYG ANY GAM.”“SHE DON’T FEEL THE NEED TO HI ANY ASPECTS OF HERSELF, AND I DON’T SEE ANY REASON WHY SHE WOULD BEE SHE HAS SO MANY STRONG ATTRIBUT,” HE SAID.“YOU N’T PH HER AROUND, AND I THK THAT’S A FANTASTIC QUALY,” HE ADD.GAY GUID THE FAS THROUGH THE COVID-19 PANMIC AS AN AND "NEVER SEEMED SHAKEN," ACRDG TO DEAN OF ARTS AND HUMANI ROB E. KELSEY. BY JULIAN J. GRDANO‘GENUELY WARM’WHEN MOVG TO HASKS HALL AS A FIRST-YEAR GRADUATE STUNT AT HARVARD, GAY BROUGHT THE THREE THGS “THAT SEEMED MOST SENTIAL TO MY SUCCS AT THE TIME,” SHE SAID AT THE DECEMBER PRS NFERENCE: “A FUTON, A MAC CLASSIC II, AND A ST IRON SKILLET FOR YG PLANTAS.”GAY NTUED TO SHARE HER LOVE FOR OKG AT HARVARD SEVERAL S LATER AS A PROFSOR.ADVERTISEMENTHOCHSCHILD SAID THAT GAY WOULD VE THEIR WHOLE CLASS TO HER HOE AT THE END OF EVERY YEAR.“SHE WAS THE ONE WHO ANIZED AND BROUGHT LOTS AND LOTS OF FOOD AND MA SURE THAT EVERYBODY WAS ENGAGED AND TALKG,” SHE SAID.WHILE HOCHSCHILD SAID GAY WAS FUNNY AND A “VERY GOOD HOSTS,” GAY ALSO MATAED HER CLASSROOM PERSONA DURG THE RMAL GATHERGS.“SHE NEVER LOOSENED UP A WHOLE LOT, OR AT LEAST NOT BROAD PANY,” HOCHSCHILD SAID.KELSEY SAID GAY ALSO ENJOYS GOG ON NS AND EATG HOT LUNCH, ADDG THAT SHE “DO NOT LIKE A LD BUFFET.”WHE ALSO PRAISED GAY FOR BEG A “GENUELY WARM AND RG” MENTOR SPE HER HECTIC SCHLE.“SHE WAS GETTG PULLED A LN DIRECTNS,” WHE SAID. “BUT VARIABLY, WHEN I HAD A MEETG ON THE LENDAR WH HER, AND I GOT TO HER OFFICE, SHE HAD ALWAYS READ THE THG THAT I HAD SENT HER. SHE HAD THOUGHTFUL MENTS ON .”“DURG THAT TIME THAT WE WERE MEETG, WAS LIKE I WAS THE ONLY PERSON SHE HAD TO TALK TO THAT DAY,” WHE ADD.THE NEW FACE OF HARVARDWH GRE OM EXETER, STANFORD, AND HARVARD, GAY’S ASCENSN THROUGH THE RANKS OF AMIA SEEMED ALMOST EVABLE. HER , ROXANE GAY, REGNIZED THIS POTENTIAL CLDE GAY OM A YOUNG AGE.ADVERTISEMENT“I THK SHE WAS ALWAYS WELL-SUED FOR AMIA,” ROXANE GAY SAID. “SHE’S ALWAYS BEEN GRACLY CUR AND TERTED HOW THGS WORK AND HOW PEOPLE WORK AND HOW WE N DO THE BS OF LIFE BETTER.”ROXANE GAY SAID SHE KNEW HER ULD REACH THE TOP AMIA IF SHE SET HER MD ON , ADDG THAT SHE N’T IMAGE A BETTER PERSON TO SERVE AS “THE FACE AND THE HEART OF HARVARD THE PUBLIC SPHERE.”BOBO SAID THE PRINTIAL SEARCH MTEE MA THE RIGHT CISN BY FAR.“I DON’T THK THERE WAS ANYBODY ELSE WHO WAS GENUELY A CLOSE SEND,” HE SAID. “THIS WAS VERY FELY THE RIGHT OUTE — AND AN EXCG ONE.”ROXANE GAY ALSO REGNIZED THE HISTORY BEHD HER ’S SELECTN.“IT’S ALWAYS NICE WHEN STUTNS LIKE HARVARD THAT ARE SO STEEPED TRADN AND STEEPED RISTG CHANGE ARE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD AND BE A PART OF THE WORLD AS IS, STEAD OF AS ONCE WAS,” ROXANE GAY ADD.GAY MA HISTORY DECEMBER WHEN SHE WAS SELECTED AS HARVARD'S FIRST PRINT OF LOR S HISTORY. BY JULIAN J. GRDANOLEE, THE FIRST HIRE CLDE GAY’S ETHNIC STUDI FACULTY SEARCH, WROTE AN EMAILED STATEMENT THAT GAY IS THE PRINT THAT THE HARVARD STUNT BODY HAS “LONG AWAED AND RIGHTLY SERVE.”“WE OFTEN TOUT OUR STUNTS AS THE FUTURE LEARS OF THEIR MUNI AND OF THE WORLD, YET THE EXAMPLE OF FAR TOO MANY POSNS OF POWER TODAY IS PLORABLE AND MORALIZG,” LEE WROTE. “SO I AM ALSO FILLED WH HOPE FOR OUR STUNTS, WHO N NOW TAKE OM DEAN GAY AS PRINT A SHG EXAMPLE OF WHAT ETHIL, IMPACTFUL LEARSHIP N BE.”MORE THAN THREE S LATER AND THOANDS OF AWAY OM WHERE THEY ONCE LIVED KIMBALL HALL TOGETHER, ANGELA RICKFORD SAID SOME OF GAY’S CHARACTERISTICS HAVE NOT CHANGED.ADVERTISEMENT“SHE’S JT A WNER,” RICKFORD SAID. “ALWAYS WAS.”—STAFF WRER MIL J. HERSZENHORN N BE REACHED AT . FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER @MHERSZENHORN.—STAFF WRER CLAIRE YUAN N BE REACHED AT . 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THE SCHOLAR EVERYONE SOUGHT: CLDE GAY, HARVARD’S NEXT {MAX-WIDTH:600PX;MARG:0PX TO;PADDG:0PX 20PX;BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;DISPLAY:BLOCK;FONT-SIZE:1.1EM;LE-HEIGHT:1.5EM;LOR:#555;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;}FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC DEAN CLDE GAY WILL MAKE HISTORY ON JULY 1, WHEN SHE WILL BEE THE FIRST PERSON OF LOR AND ONLY THE SEND WOMAN TO LEAD AMERI’S OLST STUTN OF HIGHER TN. 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GOVERNMENT AT HARVARD NEARLY 25 YEARS AGO, CLDE GAY WAS ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER YOUNG SCHOLARS THE UNTRY.JENNIFER L. HOCHSCHILD, A PRCETON POLICS PROFSOR AT THE TIME, RELLED TRYG TO REC GAY TO THE UNIVERSY — ONLY TO HAVE GAY CHOOSE STANFORD STEAD, WHERE SHE ATTAED TENURE JT FIVE YEARS.AFTER G TO HARVARD, HOCHSCHILD GOT A SEND CHANCE TO PERSUA GAY TO WORK WH HER 2006, WHEN SHE SERVED ON ANOTHER SEARCH MTEE SEEKG TO HIRE GAY.THIS TIME, HOCHSCHILD SUCCEED.SCE THEN, GAY HAS HAD A METEORIC RISE THROUGH HARVARD’S ADMISTRATN. WH A , SHE WAS TAPPED AS AN OF SOCIAL SCIENC. THREE YEARS LATER, SHE WAS APPOTED AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC. LS THAN FIVE YEARS AFTER THAT, ON DEC. 15, 2022, GAY WAS SELECTED AS THE 30TH UNIVERSY PRINT.GAY, 52, WILL MAKE HISTORY ON JULY 1, WHEN SHE WILL BEE THE FIRST PERSON OF LOR AND ONLY THE SEND WOMAN TO LEAD AMERI’S OLST STUTN OF HIGHER TN. BUT SPE GAY’S HISTORIC APPOTMENT, MANY OF HER LLEAGU AND IENDS SAY THEY WERE UNSURPRISED BY HER SELECTN TO HARVARD’S TOP {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;MAX-WIDTH:640PX;Z-X:20;POSN:RELATIVE;} > DIV{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:1EM TO;} > DIV.SHORT-LEFT{FLOAT:LEFT;} > DIV.SHORT-RIGHT{FLOAT:RIGHT;} > DIV.SHORT-SMALL{MAX-WIDTH:200PX;} > DIV.SHORT-MEDIUM{MAX-WIDTH:400PX;} > DIV.SHORT-LARGE{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;} > DIV.SHORT-XLARGE{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;} > DIV.SHORT-FULLSCREEN{PADDG:0PX;}{WIDTH:100%;}{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;MARG:5PX 0PX TO;FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#777;FONT-SIZE:15PX;}FAS DEAN CLDE GAY WAS NAMED HARVARD'S NEXT UNIVERSY PRINT ON DEC. 15, 2022, PPG HER METEORIC RISE TO AMIA'S TOP RANKS. IMG{PADDG-RIGHT:7PX;}BY {LOR:#BA0600;}JULIAN J. GRDANO‘OUTSTANDG FROM THE BEGNG’IN MANY WAYS, GAY IS AN SIR THE ELE AMIC WORLD, HAVG WALKED THE HALLS OF SOME OF THE NATN’S MOST PRTIG STUTNS: PHILLIPS EXETER AMY FOR HIGH SCHOOL, PRCETON AND STANFORD FOR LLEGE, AND HARVARD FOR GRADUATE {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTTHE DGHTER OF HAIAN IMMIGRANTS, GAY WAS BORN AND RAISED NEW YORK WH HER OLR BROTHER, SONY GAY JR. AFTER ATTENDG THE CY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, HER MOTHER BEME A REGISTERED NURSE AND HER FATHER A CIVIL ENGEER.GAY ALSO GREW UP SDI ARABIA, WHERE HER FATHER, SONY GAY SR., WORKED FOR THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGEERS. GAY LATER MOVED BACK TO THE U.S. WHERE SHE LIVED GEIA AND COLORADO, BEFORE ATTENDG THE ELE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL PHILLIPS EXETER AMY NEW HAMPSHIRE.ROXANE GAY, CLDE GAY’S FIRST , SAID SHE BELIEV THE EXPERIENCE OF GROWG UP SEVERAL UNTRI AND CI PREPARED HER FOR A REER OF ADJTG TO NEW CIRCUMSTANC AND CHALLENG.“WHEN YOU LIVE ABROAD YOU HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO NAVIGATE OTHER CULTUR AND YOU HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO NOT NECSARILY ASSIATE, BUT ADAPT,” ROXANE GAY SAID. “IF YOU DO THAT OM AN EARLY AGE, THAT ENABL YOU TO BE ABLE TO THRIVE ALMOST ANY SUATN.”AT EXETER, CLDE GAY PETED ON THE WOMEN’S TRACK TEAM AND SERVED AS DIRECTOR OF CIRCULATN FOR THE SCHOOL’S NEWSPAPER, THE EXONIAN, BEFORE GRADUATG OM THE SCHOOL 1988. HER , ROXANE GAY, ALSO ATTEND THE SCHOOL, GRADUATG 1992. CLDE GAY CURRENTLY SERV AS A TSTEE AT PHILLIPS EXETER.ROXANE GAY SAID HER IS STILL THE SAME AS HER YOUNGER SELF: “VERY ROLUTE AND BADASS AND NFINT OF HER PLACE THE WORLD.”CLDE GAY FIRST ENROLLED PRCETON UNIVERSY AS AN UNRGRADUATE, BUT SHE TRANSFERRED TO STANFORD AFTER HER HMAN YEAR BEE SHE NEED A CHANGE, ACRDG TO A 1989 ARTICLE THE STANFORD DAILY.“PRCETON IS LD, TRADNAL AND STERE. STANFORD HAS A MUCH MORE NURTURG, HUMANE ENVIRONMENT,” GAY TOLD THE STANFORD DAILY. “EVERYBODY AT PRCETON WAS ALREADY MIDDLE-AGED. AT STANFORD PEOPLE ARE WORKG BUT STILL SEEM TO BE HAVG A REALLY GOOD TIME.”GAY MAJORED ENOMICS AT STANFORD AND ALSO SERVED AS A RINT ASSISTANT ON THE SEND FLOOR OF KIMBALL HALL, AN UNRGRADUATE DORMORY.GAY, ONT LEFT, SERVED AS A RINT ASSISTANT AT KIMBALL HALL AS AN UNRGRADUATE AT STANFORD. BY COURTY OF JOHN R. RICKFORDADVERTISEMENTANGELA E. RICKFORD AND JOHN R. RICKFORD, WHO SERVED AS KIMBALL HALL RINT FELLOWS AT THE TIME, SAID THEY RECEIVED AROUND 100 APPLITNS FOR THE POSN OF RINT ASSISTANT BEFORE NARROWG DOWN TO 30 PEOPLE.DURG THE TERVIEW PROCS, THE RICKFORDS DIVIDUALLY EVALUATED EACH APPLINT WH A LETTER GRA. WHEN THEY PARED NOT AT THE END, BOTH REALIZED THEY GAVE AN A+ TO ONLY ONE PERSON: CLDE GAY.“SHE WAS OUTSTANDG OM THE BEGNG,” ANGELA RICKFORD SAID.ANGELA RICKFORD SAID SHE REMEMBERED BEG NERVO THAT GAY WOULD CLE THEIR OFFER — SPE KIMBALL HALL BEG A POPULAR LOTN FOR RINT ASSISTANTS — BEE SHE EXPECTED EVERYONE WOULD TRY TO HIRE GAY.“I REMEMBER SAYG TO JOHN, ‘I DON’T THK WE WILL GET HER BEE IF WE BOTH PENNTLY GAVE HER AN A+, THEN EVERYBODY ELSE WHO IS TERVIEWG HER IS PROBABLY GOG TO GIVE HER A HIGH GRA AND SHE’LL END UP HAVG LOTS OF OPTNS,’” SHE SAID. “BUT, LUCKY FOR , SHE DID CHOOSE .”GAY GRADUATED OM STANFORD 1992, WNG THE ANNA LRA MYERS PRIZE FOR BT SENR THIS THE ENOMICS PARTMENT. SHE MOVED TO HARVARD FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL AND PLETED HER PH.D. 1998, RECEIVG THE TOPPAN PRIZE FOR BT POLIL SCIENCE DISSERTATN.GAY, CENTER, WAS HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER EVEN AS AN UNRGRADUATE RA AT STANFORD, ACRDG TO FORMER KIMBALL HALL RINT FELLOWS ANGELA E. RICKFORD AND JOHN R. RICKFORD. BY COURTY OF JOHN R. RICKFORDRISG THROUGH THE RANKSTAKG THE PODIUM WHERE HARVARD CORPORATN SENR FELLOW PENNY S. PRZKER ’81 HAD JT ANNOUNCED HER AS THE NEXT PRINT, GAY LGHED, SHOOK HER HEAD, AND VERED HER MOUTH DISBELIEF. GAY, THE OTHERWISE FORMAL AND POSED HARVARD ADMISTRATOR, WAS VISIBLY OVERWHELMED BY EMOTN AS SHE FACED THE CHEERG CROWD WHO NOW REGNIZED HER AS THEIR FUTURE LEAR.“THIS IS CRAZY,” GAY SAID, LGHG.ADVERTISEMENTBUT MANY OF GAY’S CURRENT AND FORMER LLEAGU DISAGREE, POTG TO HER TELLECTUAL TALENT, LEARSHIP ABILI, AND PERSONALY.HOCHSCHILD, WHO TGHT SEVERAL HARVARD SEMAR URS ALONGSI THE FUTURE PRINT, SAID GAY’S TALENT WAS EASILY REGNIZABLE OM THE START.“SCE G OUT OF GRADUATE SCHOOL — WHICH OF URSE SHE DID HERE — ’S JT BEEN REAL CLEAR THAT SHE IS JT A VERY HIGH QUALY PERSON,” HOCHSCHILD SAID.BARRY R. WEGAST, A PROFSOR OF POLIL SCIENCE AT STANFORD, SAID THAT GAY STOOD OUT AMONG HER PEERS WHEN SHE STARTED TEACHG AT STANFORD UNIVERSY.“SHE WAS NOT NERVO AS MANY ASSISTANT PROFSORS ARE,” WEGAST SAID. “SHE KNEW WHERE SHE WAS GOG. SHE KNEW WHAT SHE NEED TO DO.”GAY RECEIVED “EARLY TENURE” AT STANFORD AFTER PUBLISHG SEVERAL ARTICL THAT GAED WISPREAD REGNN BEFORE SHE WAS POACHED BY HARVARD 2006, ACRDG TO {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;MAX-WIDTH:100%;Z-X:20;POSN:RELATIVE;} > DIV{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:1EM TO;} > DIV.SHORT-LEFT{FLOAT:LEFT;} > DIV.SHORT-RIGHT{FLOAT:RIGHT;} > DIV.SHORT-SMALL{MAX-WIDTH:200PX;} > DIV.SHORT-MEDIUM{MAX-WIDTH:400PX;} > DIV.SHORT-LARGE{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;} > DIV.SHORT-XLARGE{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;} > DIV.SHORT-FULLSCREEN{PADDG:0PX;}GAY, PICTURED 2007, BEGAN TEACHG AT HARVARD 2006. BY ERIC A. REAVISA SCHOLAR OF POLIL BEHAVR, GAY HAS WRTEN NUMERO ARTICL FOCG ON ISSU OF RACE AND POLICS THE UNED STAT. SHE HAS -EDED A BOOK WH HOCHSCHILD AND TWO OTHER SCHOLARS, BUT SHE HAS NOT THORED A BOOK.“SHE JT THKS VERY CLEARLY,” HOCHSCHILD SAID. “SHE HAS THE PACY TO HONE ON WHAT REALLY MATTERS.”ARIEL WHE, A FORMER GRADUATE STUNT THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT, SAID GAY — THE CHAIR OF HER DISSERTATN MTEE — WAS A “BRILLIANT SCHOLAR” AND SOMEONE SHE WAS LUCKY TO WORK WH.ADVERTISEMENT“SHE ALWAYS LISTENS VERY ATTENTIVELY, AND THEN SHE ASKS THE VERY SIMPLE-SOUNDG QUTNS THAT GET RIGHT TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER,” SHE SAID. “THAT WAS THE THG THAT MA ME REALIZE, ‘OH, THIS IS THE SCHOLAR WHO I WANT READG MY WORK AND REACTG TO AND MAKG BETTER.’”IN 2015, FORMER FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC DEAN MICHAEL D. SMH TAPPED GAY TO SERVE AS AN OF SOCIAL SCIENC.“HER NAME ME UP WH LOTS OF FANTASTIC MENTS BY MANY OF HER LLEAGU ABOUT THE KDS OF SKILLS AND ACTNS THAT SHE’D ALREADY BEEN DOG SIMPLY AS A FACULTY MEMBER WH THE SOCIAL SCIENC,” HE SAID.SMH RELLED BEG “SEVERELY IMPRSED” BY GAY DURG THE HIRG PROCS AND PRAISED HER DILIGENCE AS AN.“I LOVED WORKG WH HER DAY AND DAY OUT ON THE ISSU THAT WOULD E UP,” HE SAID. “WHEN SHE WOULD E TO OUR MEETGS, SHE WAS ALWAYS EXTREMELY WELL-PREPARED, UNRSTOOD THE ISSU THAT WE NEED TO BE TALKG ABOUT WHEN WE HAD DIFFICULT PROBLEMS.”THREE YEARS LATER, HARVARD UNIVERSY PRINT LAWRENCE S. BAW APPOTED GAY TO SUCCEED SMH AS FAS AN.“SHE IS A SCHOLAR OF UNMON CREATIVY AND RIGOR, WH A STRONG WORKG KNOWLEDGE OF THE OPPORTUNI AND CHALLENG FACG THE FAS,” BAW SAID A JULY 2018 PRS RELEASE ANNOUNCG HER APPOTMENT. “SHE RADIAT A NCERN FOR OTHERS, AND FOR HOW WHAT WE DO HERE N HELP IMPROVE LIV FAR BEYOND OUR WALLS.”WHEN BAW ANNOUNCED JUNE 2022 THAT HE WOULD STEP DOWN, DEAN OF ARTS AND HUMANI ROB E. KELSEY SAID HE IMMEDIATELY KNEW WHO BAW’S SUCCSOR SHOULD BE.“MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS THAT DEAN GAY SHOULD BE OUR NEXT PRINT,” HE SAID.GAY BEME AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC 2018 AFTER ONLY THREE YEARS AS A HARVARD ADMISTRATOR, A LTLE OVER A AFTER FIRST JOG THE UNIVERSY AS A PROFSOR. BY ALLISON G. LEEADVERTISEMENT‘RECEPTIVE INSTUTNAL LEAR’AS GAY PREPAR TO MOVE OM UNIVERSY HALL TO MASSACHETTS HALL, LLEAGU SAID THEY EXPECT TELLECTUAL AND MOGRAPHIC DIVERSY TO BE KEY EMS ON HER AGENDA.KELSEY HIGHLIGHTED FACULTY APPOTMENTS AND CURRICULUM CHANG AS IMPORTANT ISSU FOR GAY’S TENURE.“SHE’S BEEN REALLY TERMED TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE THE FACULTY WE NEED TO MEET THE CHALLENG AND TO MATCH THE TERTS OF A NEW GENERATN,” HE SAID. “I THK SHE WILL NTUE TO DO THAT OM MASSACHETTS HALL.”DURG HER TIME AS AN OF THE FAS, GAY WORKED TO BRG MORE ETHNIC STUDI SCHOLARS TO HARVARD, HIRG THREE ETHNIC STUDI PROFSORS LAST YEAR. IN AN APRIL 2022 TERVIEW, GAY SAID SHE SUPPORTS THE CREATN OF AN UNRGRADUATE NCENTRATN ETHNICY, DIGENEY, AND MIGRATN.TAEKU LEE, A GOVERNMENT PROFSOR WHO JOED HARVARD 2022 AS PART OF THE ETHNIC STUDI CLER HIRE, WROTE AN EMAILED STATEMENT THAT HE JOED HARVARD LARGE PART BEE OF GAY’S “VISN FOR AND LEARSHIP ON THE ETHNICY, INDIGENEY, AND MIGRATN IATIVE.”“I AM FILLED WH HOPE FOR THE UNIVERSY AND, NO SURPRISE, FOR THE FUTURE OF ETHNIC STUDI BY HER SELECTN AS HARVARD’S 30TH PRINT,” LEE WROTE.AS PRINT, GAY WILL ALSO FACE A S-OLD MAND FOR AN ETHNIC STUDI PARTMENT.DEAN OF THE SOCIAL SCIENC LAWRENCE D. BOBO SAID GAY “FUNDAMENTALLY HAS BOUGHT TO THE RE ASPIRATNS” OF THE PH FOR A PARTMENT.“SHE HAS WORKED VERY HARD TO BUILD A FACULTY THAT IS NOT ONLY MORE TELLECTUALLY DIVERSE ALONG THE L, BUT REALLY MOGRAPHILLY MORE DIVERSE,” HE SAID. “SHE WILL CERTALY, I WOULD EXPECT, NTUE THAT AS A PRRY.”ADVERTISEMENTGAY, WHO WORKED TO HIRE ETHNIC STUDI SCHOLARS AS FAS AN, IS EXPECTED TO FACE LLS TO FOUND AN ETHNIC STUDI PARTMENT AS PRINT. BY RYAN N. GAJARAWALABOBO SAID HE WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE THE CREATN OF AN ETHNIC STUDI PARTMENT DURG GAY’S TENURE, BUT SAID THAT IS “NOT OBV” TO HIM THAT A PARTMENT IS “THE FORM OUGHT TO TAKE.”“THERE ARE SEVERAL OPTNS HERE,” HE SAID. “I WANT PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO S DOWN AND SIGN KNOWG THAT — IF THEY REACH NSENS ON A PLAN AND LAY OUT THE TELLECTUAL SE FOR — KNOWG THAT THEY’RE GOG TO HAVE A VERY RECEPTIVE STUTNAL LEAR CLDE GAY.”GAY ALSO STEERED THE FAS THROUGH SEVERAL SNDALS RELATED TO SEXUAL HARASSMENT DURG HER TENURE AS AN.IN SUMMER 2019, GAY STRIPPED GOVERNMENT PROFSOR JE I. DOMíNGUEZ OF HIS EMER STAT AND DISVED HIM OM THE FAS MP AFTER AN VTIGATN. GAY ALSO SPEND ENOMICS PROFSOR ROLAND G. FRYER JR., WHO FACED ACCATNS OF SEXUALLY HARASSG -WORKERS. IN 2021, THE SCHOOL RESTATED FRYER’S TEACHG AND REARCH ROL.FOLLOWG A 2020 CRIMSON VTIGATN THAT UNVERED ALLEGATNS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT THE ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT, GAY STRIPPED PROFSOR GARY URTON OF HIS EMER STAT AND SANCTNED PROFSOR JOHN L. COMAROFF FOR VLATG THE SCHOOL’S SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND PROFSNAL NDUCT POLICI.HARVARD FACULTY ALSO PRAISED GAY’S LEARSHIP OF THE FAS AFTER THE COVID-19 PANMIC FORCED STUNTS TO PART MP MARCH 2020.BOBO POTED TO A MEETG EARLY MARCH 2020 WHEN GAY RMED FAS LEARSHIP THAT MP WOULD BE CLOSG AND LEARNG WOULD SHIFT ONLE.“SHE HANDLED THAT MEETG WH EXTRAORDARY APLOMB AND NFINCE AND PLANFULNS,” BOBO SAID. “OVER THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED, SHE EXHIBED WHAT I N ONLY REGARD AS REALLY EXCEPTNAL CLARY OF PURPOSE, STEADS AT THE HELM, AND EXUD A REAL NFINCE THAT WE WERE GOG TO MAKE A VERY DIFFICULT SUATN WORK.”KELSEY AGREED.ADVERTISEMENT“SHE NEVER SEEMED SHAKEN BY THE PANMIC AND THE CHALLENG THAT POSED,” KELSEY SAID. “SHE KEPT THE TEAM TOGETHER.”HOCHSCHILD, WHO SERVED AS THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT CHAIR FOR THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF GAY’S TENURE AS FAS AN, SAID GAY HAS “STRONG VIEWS.”“SHE’S NOT SHY ABOUT EXPRSG THEM OR ABOUT WANTG TO IMPLEMENT THEM WHEN WAS HER JOB TO MAKE A CISN HER ROLE AS AN,” HOCHSCHILD SAID. “BUT SHE’S VERY MTED TO PARTICIPATN THE PROCS OF REACHG THE RIGHT ANSWER.”SMH SCRIBED GAY AS A “STRAIGHTFORWARD” PERSON WHO IS “NOT PLAYG ANY GAM.”“SHE DON’T FEEL THE NEED TO HI ANY ASPECTS OF HERSELF, AND I DON’T SEE ANY REASON WHY SHE WOULD BEE SHE HAS SO MANY STRONG ATTRIBUT,” HE SAID.“YOU N’T PH HER AROUND, AND I THK THAT’S A FANTASTIC QUALY,” HE ADD.GAY GUID THE FAS THROUGH THE COVID-19 PANMIC AS AN AND "NEVER SEEMED SHAKEN," ACRDG TO DEAN OF ARTS AND HUMANI ROB E. KELSEY. BY JULIAN J. GRDANO‘GENUELY WARM’WHEN MOVG TO HASKS HALL AS A FIRST-YEAR GRADUATE STUNT AT HARVARD, GAY BROUGHT THE THREE THGS “THAT SEEMED MOST SENTIAL TO MY SUCCS AT THE TIME,” SHE SAID AT THE DECEMBER PRS NFERENCE: “A FUTON, A MAC CLASSIC II, AND A ST IRON SKILLET FOR YG PLANTAS.”GAY NTUED TO SHARE HER LOVE FOR OKG AT HARVARD SEVERAL S LATER AS A PROFSOR.ADVERTISEMENTHOCHSCHILD SAID THAT GAY WOULD VE THEIR WHOLE CLASS TO HER HOE AT THE END OF EVERY YEAR.“SHE WAS THE ONE WHO ANIZED AND BROUGHT LOTS AND LOTS OF FOOD AND MA SURE THAT EVERYBODY WAS ENGAGED AND TALKG,” SHE SAID.WHILE HOCHSCHILD SAID GAY WAS FUNNY AND A “VERY GOOD HOSTS,” GAY ALSO MATAED HER CLASSROOM PERSONA DURG THE RMAL GATHERGS.“SHE NEVER LOOSENED UP A WHOLE LOT, OR AT LEAST NOT BROAD PANY,” HOCHSCHILD SAID.KELSEY SAID GAY ALSO ENJOYS GOG ON NS AND EATG HOT LUNCH, ADDG THAT SHE “DO NOT LIKE A LD BUFFET.”WHE ALSO PRAISED GAY FOR BEG A “GENUELY WARM AND RG” MENTOR SPE HER HECTIC SCHLE.“SHE WAS GETTG PULLED A LN DIRECTNS,” WHE SAID. “BUT VARIABLY, WHEN I HAD A MEETG ON THE LENDAR WH HER, AND I GOT TO HER OFFICE, SHE HAD ALWAYS READ THE THG THAT I HAD SENT HER. SHE HAD THOUGHTFUL MENTS ON .”“DURG THAT TIME THAT WE WERE MEETG, WAS LIKE I WAS THE ONLY PERSON SHE HAD TO TALK TO THAT DAY,” WHE ADD.THE NEW FACE OF HARVARDWH GRE OM EXETER, STANFORD, AND HARVARD, GAY’S ASCENSN THROUGH THE RANKS OF AMIA SEEMED ALMOST EVABLE. HER , ROXANE GAY, REGNIZED THIS POTENTIAL CLDE GAY OM A YOUNG AGE.ADVERTISEMENT“I THK SHE WAS ALWAYS WELL-SUED FOR AMIA,” ROXANE GAY SAID. “SHE’S ALWAYS BEEN GRACLY CUR AND TERTED HOW THGS WORK AND HOW PEOPLE WORK AND HOW WE N DO THE BS OF LIFE BETTER.”ROXANE GAY SAID SHE KNEW HER ULD REACH THE TOP AMIA IF SHE SET HER MD ON , ADDG THAT SHE N’T IMAGE A BETTER PERSON TO SERVE AS “THE FACE AND THE HEART OF HARVARD THE PUBLIC SPHERE.”BOBO SAID THE PRINTIAL SEARCH MTEE MA THE RIGHT CISN BY FAR.“I DON’T THK THERE WAS ANYBODY ELSE WHO WAS GENUELY A CLOSE SEND,” HE SAID. “THIS WAS VERY FELY THE RIGHT OUTE — AND AN EXCG ONE.”ROXANE GAY ALSO REGNIZED THE HISTORY BEHD HER ’S SELECTN.“IT’S ALWAYS NICE WHEN STUTNS LIKE HARVARD THAT ARE SO STEEPED TRADN AND STEEPED RISTG CHANGE ARE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD AND BE A PART OF THE WORLD AS IS, STEAD OF AS ONCE WAS,” ROXANE GAY ADD.GAY MA HISTORY DECEMBER WHEN SHE WAS SELECTED AS HARVARD'S FIRST PRINT OF LOR S HISTORY. BY JULIAN J. GRDANOLEE, THE FIRST HIRE CLDE GAY’S ETHNIC STUDI FACULTY SEARCH, WROTE AN EMAILED STATEMENT THAT GAY IS THE PRINT THAT THE HARVARD STUNT BODY HAS “LONG AWAED AND RIGHTLY SERVE.”“WE OFTEN TOUT OUR STUNTS AS THE FUTURE LEARS OF THEIR MUNI AND OF THE WORLD, YET THE EXAMPLE OF FAR TOO MANY POSNS OF POWER TODAY IS PLORABLE AND MORALIZG,” LEE WROTE. “SO I AM ALSO FILLED WH HOPE FOR OUR STUNTS, WHO N NOW TAKE OM DEAN GAY AS PRINT A SHG EXAMPLE OF WHAT ETHIL, IMPACTFUL LEARSHIP N BE.”MORE THAN THREE S LATER AND THOANDS OF AWAY OM WHERE THEY ONCE LIVED KIMBALL HALL TOGETHER, ANGELA RICKFORD SAID SOME OF GAY’S CHARACTERISTICS HAVE NOT CHANGED.ADVERTISEMENT“SHE’S JT A WNER,” RICKFORD SAID. “ALWAYS WAS.”—STAFF WRER MIL J. HERSZENHORN N BE REACHED AT . FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER @MHERSZENHORN.—STAFF WRER CLAIRE YUAN N BE REACHED AT . 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Government at Harvard nearly 25 years ago, Clde Gay was one of the most sought-after young scholars the untry. Hochschild, a Prceton polics profsor at the time, relled tryg to rec Gay to the universy — only to have Gay choose Stanford stead, where she attaed tenure jt five g to Harvard, Hochschild got a send chance to persua Gay to work wh her 2006, when she served on another search mtee seekg to hire time, Hochschild then, Gay has had a meteoric rise through Harvard’s admistratn.

15, 2022, Gay was selected as the 30th Universy, 52, will make history on July 1, when she will bee the first person of lor and only the send woman to lead Ameri’s olst stutn of higher tn. But spe Gay’s historic appotment, many of her lleagu and iends say they were unsurprised by her selectn to Harvard’s top Dean Clde Gay was named Harvard's next Universy print on Dec. Grdano‘Outstandg From the Begng’In many ways, Gay is an sir the ele amic world, havg walked the halls of some of the natn’s most prtig stutns: Phillips Exeter Amy for high school, Prceton and Stanford for llege, and Harvard for graduate dghter of Haian immigrants, Gay was born and raised New York wh her olr brother, Sony Gay Jr.

After attendg the Cy College of New York, her mother beme a registered nurse and her father a civil also grew up Sdi Arabia, where her father, Sony Gay Sr., worked for the U. Gay later moved back to the U. Where she lived Geia and Colorado, before attendg the ele preparatory high school Phillips Exeter Amy New Gay, Clde Gay’s first , said she believ the experience of growg up several untri and ci prepared her for a reer of adjtg to new circumstanc and challeng.

IS CLDE GAY YOUR ? I WORK WH HER AT HARVARD. SHE'S AWOME (AS ARE YOU).

“When you live abroad you have to learn how to navigate other cultur and you have to learn how to not necsarily assiate, but adapt, ” Roxane Gay said. ”At Exeter, Clde Gay peted on the women’s track team and served as director of circulatn for the school’s newspaper, the Exonian, before graduatg om the school 1988. Her , Roxane Gay, also attend the school, graduatg 1992.

Clde Gay currently serv as a tstee at Phillips Gay said her is still the same as her younger self: “Very rolute and badass and nfint of her place the world. ”Clde Gay first enrolled Prceton Universy as an unrgraduate, but she transferred to Stanford after her hman year bee she need a change, acrdg to a 1989 article the Stanford Daily.

Stanford has a much more nurturg, humane environment, ” Gay told the Stanford Daily.

THE WORLD OF ROXANE GAY: A FIERCE VOICE WHAT SHE LLS 'AN AGE OF ELASTICY'

”Gay majored enomics at Stanford and also served as a rint assistant on the send floor of Kimball Hall, an unrgraduate E. When they pared not at the end, both realized they gave an A+ to only one person: Clde Gay. “She was outstandg om the begng, ” Angela Rickford Rickford said she remembered beg nervo that Gay would cle their offer — spe Kimball Hall beg a popular lotn for rint assistants — bee she expected everyone would try to hire Gay.

”Gay graduated om Stanford 1992, wng the Anna Lra Myers Prize for bt senr this the enomics partment. Przker ’81 had jt announced her as the next print, Gay lghed, shook her head, and vered her mouth disbelief. Gay, the otherwise formal and posed Harvard admistrator, was visibly overwhelmed by emotn as she faced the cheerg crowd who now regnized her as their future lear.

BE BIGGER, FIGHT HARR: ROXANE GAY ON A LIFETIME OF 'HUNGER'

“This is crazy, ” Gay said, many of Gay’s current and former lleagu disagree, potg to her tellectual talent, learship abili, and personaly. Hochschild, who tght several Harvard semar urs alongsi the future print, said Gay’s talent was easily regnizable om the start.

Wegast, a profsor of polil science at Stanford, said that Gay stood out among her peers when she started teachg at Stanford Universy. ”Gay received “early tenure” at Stanford after publishg several articl that gaed wispread regnn before she was poached by Harvard 2006, acrdg to, pictured 2007, began teachg at Harvard 2006.

ROXANE GAY’S COMPLITED “HUNGER”

ReavisA scholar of polil behavr, Gay has wrten numero articl focg on issu of race and polics the Uned Stat. ”Ariel Whe, a former graduate stunt the Government Department, said Gay — the chair of her dissertatn mtee — was a “brilliant scholar” and someone she was lucky to work wh. Smh tapped Gay to serve as an of Social Scienc.

“Her name me up wh lots of fantastic ments by many of her lleagu about the kds of skills and actns that she’d already been dog simply as a faculty member wh the Social Scienc, ” he relled beg “severely imprsed” by Gay durg the hirg procs and praised her diligence as an. Baw appoted Gay to succeed Smh as FAS an.

“My first thought was that Dean Gay should be our next print, ” he beme an of the Faculty of Arts and Scienc 2018 after only three years as a Harvard admistrator, a ltle over a after first jog the Universy as a profsor. Lee‘Receptive Instutnal Lear’As Gay prepar to move om Universy Hall to Massachetts Hall, lleagu said they expect tellectual and mographic diversy to be key ems on her highlighted faculty appotments and curriculum chang as important issu for Gay’s tenure. ”Durg her time as an of the FAS, Gay worked to brg more ethnic studi scholars to Harvard, hirg three ethnic studi profsors last year.

ROXANE GAY

In an April 2022 terview, Gay said she supports the creatn of an unrgraduate ncentratn ethnicy, digeney, and Lee, a Government profsor who joed Harvard 2022 as part of the ethnic studi cler hire, wrote an emailed statement that he joed Harvard large part bee of Gay’s “visn for and learship on the Ethnicy, Indigeney, and Migratn iative. ”“I am filled wh hope for the Universy and, no surprise, for the future of ethnic studi by her selectn as Harvard’s 30th print, ” Lee print, Gay will also face a s-old mand for an ethnic studi of the Social Scienc Lawrence D.

Bobo said Gay “fundamentally has bought to the re aspiratns” of the ph for a partment.

'I DIDN’T THK MARRIAGE WAS IN THE CARDS FOR ME': AUTHOR ROXANE GAY CELEBRAT FIRST ANNIVERSARY AFTER ELOPG DURG PANMIC

”Gay, who worked to hire ethnic studi scholars as FAS an, is expected to face lls to found an ethnic studi partment as print. GajarawalaBobo said he would not be surprised to see the creatn of an ethnic studi partment durg Gay’s tenure, but said that is “not obv” to him that a partment is “the form ought to take. “I want people to be able to s down and sign knowg that — if they reach nsens on a plan and lay out the tellectual se for — knowg that they’re gog to have a very receptive stutnal lear Clde Gay.