Clde Gay Named Harvard’s First Black Print — Here’s What To Know About Her

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• MEET CLDE GAY’S HBAND DR CHRISTOPHER AFENDULIS
• WHO IS CLDE GAY MARRIED TO? PERSONAL LIFE EXPLORED AS HARVARD UNIVERSY APPOTS FIRST BLACK PRINT
• WHO IS CLDE GAY, HARVARD’S NEXT PRINT?{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;}BEFORE CLDE GAY WAS TAPPED AS HARVARD’S FIRST PRINT OF LOR THURSDAY, SHE ALREADY MA HER MARK AS A SCHOLAR AND THE LEAR OF HARVARD'S FLAGSHIP {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;}NIA L. 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PRZKER ’81, THE SENR FELLOW OF THE HARVARD CORPORATN, ANNOUNCED THURSDAY THAT GAY — WHO HAS SERVED AS AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC SCE 2018 — WOULD SUCCEED PRINT LAWRENCE S. BAW JULY.GAY WILL BE HARVARD’S SEND FEMALE PRINT AFTER FORMER PRINT DREW G. FST, WHO LED THE UNIVERSY OM 2007 TO 2018.BUT GAY IS NO STRANGER TO BREAKG BARRIERS. HER APPOTMENT AS FAS AN BY BAW, LS THAN A MONTH TO HIS TENURE AS PRINT, MA HER THE FIRST WOMAN AND PERSON OF LOR TO LEAD HARVARD’S FLAGSHIP FACULTY.GAY, WHO RECEIVED A PH.D. GOVERNMENT OM HARVARD 1998, FIRST JOED THE FACULTY AS A GOVERNMENT PROFSOR 2006 AND ROSE TO THE ROLE OF AN OF THE SOCIAL SCIENC DIVISN 2015.DURG REMARKS AT A THURSDAY RECEPTN THE SMH CAMP CENTER, GAY — THE DGHTER OF TWO HAIAN IMMIGRANTS — CREDED HER PARENTS WH STILLG HER AN APPRECIATN FOR TN.“THEY ME TO THE U.S. WH VERY LTLE AND PUT THEMSELV THROUGH LLEGE WHILE RAISG OUR FAY,” GAY SAID. “COLLEGE WAS ALWAYS THE EXPECTATN FOR ME. MY PARENTS BELIEVED THAT TN OPENS EVERY DOOR.”GAY’S MOTHER WAS A NURSE, AND HER FATHER WAS AN ENGEER FOR THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGEERS. HIS WORK BROUGHT GAY TO SDI ARABIA, WHERE SHE SPENT A PORTN OF HER CHILDHOOD. SHE NOW LIV CAMBRIDGE WH HER HBAND AND SON.AFTER GRADUATG 1988 OM PHILLIPS EXETER AMY, A PRIVATE NEW HAMPSHIRE BOARDG SCHOOL WHERE SHE STILL SERV AS A TSTEE, GAY MATRICULATED AT STANFORD AND RECEIVED A BACHELOR’S GREE ENOMICS 1992, WNG A PRIZE FOR HER SENR {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;}ADVERTISEMENTGAY THEN RETURNED TO THE EAST COAST AS A GRADUATE STUNT HARVARD’S GOVERNMENT PARTMENT, “FULL OF EXCEMENT.”“I N’T HELP BUT THK OF A MUCH YOUNGER VERSN OF MYSELF, A FIRST-YEAR GRADUATE STUNT MOVG TO HASKS HALL, LUGGG THE THGS THAT SEEMED MOST SENTIAL TO MY SUCCS AT THE TIME: A FUTON, A MAC CLASSIC II, AND A ST IRON SKILLET FOR YG PLANTAS,” GAY SAID THURSDAY.“THAT CLDE ULD NOT POSSIBLY HAVE IMAGED THAT HER PATH WOULD LEAD HERE, BUT I RRY FORWARD BOTH HER EXCEMENT AND HER BELIEF THE FE POSSIBILY OF HARVARD,” GAY ADD.ONCE GAY PLETED HER PH.D. AT HARVARD — EARNG THE TOPPAN PRIZE FOR BT DISSERTATN POLIL SCIENCE — SHE RETURNED TO STANFORD AS A POLIL SCIENCE PROFSOR OM 2000 TO 2006 BEFORE REJOG HARVARD’S GOVERNMENT PARTMENT, NOW AS A PROFSOR.ON THURSDAY, SHE SAID HARVARD WAS “WHERE I FOUND MY TELLECTUAL HOME.”“WH EACH LEARSHIP ROLE I’VE TAKEN ON AT HARVARD — OM AN OF SOCIAL SCIENCE TO AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC — I’VE BEEN NNECTED TO A WIR WORLD, TO NEW QUTNS AND NEW POSSIBILI FOR HOW THROUGH REARCH, THROUGH TEACHG, THE WORLD N BE BETTER THAN IS TODAY,” GAY SAID.GAY, WHOSE OWN AMIC WORK CENTERS ON POLIL PARTICIPATN AND THE POLICS OF RACE, TABLISHED THE INEQUALY AMERI INIATIVE 2017 — A FLAGSHIP PROGRAM OM HER TIME AS AN OF SOCIAL SCIENC.THE IATIVE, WH OVER 70 AFFILIATED PROFSORS, FUNDS AND NDUCTS MULTIDISCIPLARY REARCH TO SOCIAL AND ENOMIC EQUALY AND CLUS A POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAM.AS FAS AN, GAY HAS MA STRIS THE SEARCH FOR ETHNIC STUDI SCHOLARS AT HARVARD. IN 2022, SHE HIRED THREE ETHNIC STUDI PROFSORS FOLLOWG S OF LLS FOR THE VELOPMENT OF AN ETHNIC STUDI PARTMENT. EARLIER THIS YEAR, SHE ALSO ANNOUNCED AN EXPANSN OF THE INEQUALY AMERI POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP OM TWO TO FOUR SCHOLARS.INCREASED SCTY OF THE UNIVERSY’S TENURE SYSTEM HAS ALSO BEEN A FEATURE OF HER TIME AS FAS AN. AFTER THE NIAL OF TENURE FOR FORMER ROMANCE LANGUAG AND LERATURE PROFSOR LIA GARCíA PEñA FUELED BACKLASH AMONG STUNTS, FACULTY, AND SCHOLARS, GAY LNCHED A REVIEW OF THE TENURE PROMOTN PROCS, WHICH NCLUD LAST YEAR. CONTROVERSY SURROUNDG THE TENURE PROCS RURFACED EARLY 2021 WHEN FORMER PROFSOR CORNEL R. WT ’74 PARTED HARVARD AFTER CLAIMG THE UNIVERSY REJECTED HIS REQUT TO BE NSIRED FOR A TENURED POSN.ADVERTISEMENTDURG GAY’S TENURE, HARVARD WAS ROILED BY PUBLIC ACCATNS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND MISNDUCT AGAST HIGH-PROFILE PROFSORS. THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUTN REPORTED EARLY 2018 THAT FORMER GOVERNMENT PROFSOR JE I. DOMGUEZ FACED SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATNS OM AT LEAST 18 WOMEN OVER NEARLY FOUR S WHILE RISG THROUGH THE UNIVERSY’S RANKS. GAY STRIPPED DOMGUEZ OF HIS EMER STAT DURG HER FIRST YEAR AS AN.MONTHS LATER, SHE PLACED ENOMICS PROFSOR ROLAND G. FRYER JR. ON ADMISTRATIVE LEAVE AFTER HARVARD FOUND HE VLATED S SEXUAL HARASSMENT POLICI, AND 2020, ACCATNS AROSE AGAST ANTHROPOLOGY PROFSORS GARY URTON AND JOHN L. COMAROFF.GAY STRIPPED URTON OF HIS EMER STAT AND BANNED HIM OM THE FAS MP AND SHE PLACED COMAROFF ON UNPAID ADMISTRATIVE LEAVE AFTER SEPARATE TERNAL VTIGATNS FOUND THE TWO MEN BREACHED HARVARD SEXUAL HARASSMENT POLICI. THIS YEAR, THREE GRADUATE STUNTS SUED HARVARD FOR ALLEGEDLY IGNORG AND MISHANDLG REPORTS OF COMAROFF’S BEHAVR.COMAROFF AND FRYER HAVE SCE RETURNED TO THE CLASSROOM.ON THURSDAY, GAY SAID SHE WAS “GRATEFUL BEYOND WORDS” TO HAVE BEEN SELECTED AS PRINT.“AS I START MY TENURE, THERE’S SO MUCH MORE FOR ME TO DISVER ABOUT THE STUTN THAT I LOVE, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO DOG ALL OF THAT WH OUR WHOLE MUNY,” SHE SAID.—STAFF WRER NIA L. ORAKWUE N BE REACHED AT —STAFF WRER ELIAS J. 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• CLDE GAY: 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT HARVARD’S FIRST BLACK PRINT
• CLDE GAY NAMED HARVARD’S FIRST BLACK PRINT — HERE’S WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT HER

MEET CLDE GAY’S HBAND DR CHRISTOPHER AFENDULIS

Amid the news of Clde Gay beg named Harvard Universy’s new print, we learn more about her fay and hband Christopher C.

WHO IS CLDE GAY MARRIED TO? PERSONAL LIFE EXPLORED AS HARVARD UNIVERSY APPOTS FIRST BLACK PRINT

“Wily admired higher tn lear” Clde Gay has been selected to be Harvard’s next lear and first Black print. DARK CHOCOLATE CONTAINS HEAVY METALS, STUDY CLAIMSPhoto by Er Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagWho is Clde Gay? Clde Gay, reportedly at the age of 52 or 53, is a polil scientist born Bronx, New York.

Clde has served as Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc (FAS) sce 2018 and prevly was profsor of Ain and Ain-Amerin to know Clde Gay’s hbandChristopher C. Amerin polil scientist Clde Gay has been appoted as Harvard Universy's 30th print, makg her the first black person to hold this posn.

Clde Gay is the dghter of Haian immigrants but was born New York 1970.

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PRZKER ’81, THE SENR FELLOW OF THE HARVARD CORPORATN, ANNOUNCED THURSDAY THAT GAY — WHO HAS SERVED AS AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC SCE 2018 — WOULD SUCCEED PRINT LAWRENCE S. BAW JULY.GAY WILL BE HARVARD’S SEND FEMALE PRINT AFTER FORMER PRINT DREW G. FST, WHO LED THE UNIVERSY OM 2007 TO 2018.BUT GAY IS NO STRANGER TO BREAKG BARRIERS. HER APPOTMENT AS FAS AN BY BAW, LS THAN A MONTH TO HIS TENURE AS PRINT, MA HER THE FIRST WOMAN AND PERSON OF LOR TO LEAD HARVARD’S FLAGSHIP FACULTY.GAY, WHO RECEIVED A PH.D. GOVERNMENT OM HARVARD 1998, FIRST JOED THE FACULTY AS A GOVERNMENT PROFSOR 2006 AND ROSE TO THE ROLE OF AN OF THE SOCIAL SCIENC DIVISN 2015.DURG REMARKS AT A THURSDAY RECEPTN THE SMH CAMP CENTER, GAY — THE DGHTER OF TWO HAIAN IMMIGRANTS — CREDED HER PARENTS WH STILLG HER AN APPRECIATN FOR TN.“THEY ME TO THE U.S. WH VERY LTLE AND PUT THEMSELV THROUGH LLEGE WHILE RAISG OUR FAY,” GAY SAID. “COLLEGE WAS ALWAYS THE EXPECTATN FOR ME. MY PARENTS BELIEVED THAT TN OPENS EVERY DOOR.”GAY’S MOTHER WAS A NURSE, AND HER FATHER WAS AN ENGEER FOR THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGEERS. HIS WORK BROUGHT GAY TO SDI ARABIA, WHERE SHE SPENT A PORTN OF HER CHILDHOOD. SHE NOW LIV CAMBRIDGE WH HER HBAND AND SON.AFTER GRADUATG 1988 OM PHILLIPS EXETER AMY, A PRIVATE NEW HAMPSHIRE BOARDG SCHOOL WHERE SHE STILL SERV AS A TSTEE, GAY MATRICULATED AT STANFORD AND RECEIVED A BACHELOR’S GREE ENOMICS 1992, WNG A PRIZE FOR HER SENR {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;}ADVERTISEMENTGAY THEN RETURNED TO THE EAST COAST AS A GRADUATE STUNT HARVARD’S GOVERNMENT PARTMENT, “FULL OF EXCEMENT.”“I N’T HELP BUT THK OF A MUCH YOUNGER VERSN OF MYSELF, A FIRST-YEAR GRADUATE STUNT MOVG TO HASKS HALL, LUGGG THE THGS THAT SEEMED MOST SENTIAL TO MY SUCCS AT THE TIME: A FUTON, A MAC CLASSIC II, AND A ST IRON SKILLET FOR YG PLANTAS,” GAY SAID THURSDAY.“THAT CLDE ULD NOT POSSIBLY HAVE IMAGED THAT HER PATH WOULD LEAD HERE, BUT I RRY FORWARD BOTH HER EXCEMENT AND HER BELIEF THE FE POSSIBILY OF HARVARD,” GAY ADD.ONCE GAY PLETED HER PH.D. AT HARVARD — EARNG THE TOPPAN PRIZE FOR BT DISSERTATN POLIL SCIENCE — SHE RETURNED TO STANFORD AS A POLIL SCIENCE PROFSOR OM 2000 TO 2006 BEFORE REJOG HARVARD’S GOVERNMENT PARTMENT, NOW AS A PROFSOR.ON THURSDAY, SHE SAID HARVARD WAS “WHERE I FOUND MY TELLECTUAL HOME.”“WH EACH LEARSHIP ROLE I’VE TAKEN ON AT HARVARD — OM AN OF SOCIAL SCIENCE TO AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC — I’VE BEEN NNECTED TO A WIR WORLD, TO NEW QUTNS AND NEW POSSIBILI FOR HOW THROUGH REARCH, THROUGH TEACHG, THE WORLD N BE BETTER THAN IS TODAY,” GAY SAID.GAY, WHOSE OWN AMIC WORK CENTERS ON POLIL PARTICIPATN AND THE POLICS OF RACE, TABLISHED THE INEQUALY AMERI INIATIVE 2017 — A FLAGSHIP PROGRAM OM HER TIME AS AN OF SOCIAL SCIENC.THE IATIVE, WH OVER 70 AFFILIATED PROFSORS, FUNDS AND NDUCTS MULTIDISCIPLARY REARCH TO SOCIAL AND ENOMIC EQUALY AND CLUS A POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAM.AS FAS AN, GAY HAS MA STRIS THE SEARCH FOR ETHNIC STUDI SCHOLARS AT HARVARD. IN 2022, SHE HIRED THREE ETHNIC STUDI PROFSORS FOLLOWG S OF LLS FOR THE VELOPMENT OF AN ETHNIC STUDI PARTMENT. EARLIER THIS YEAR, SHE ALSO ANNOUNCED AN EXPANSN OF THE INEQUALY AMERI POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP OM TWO TO FOUR SCHOLARS.INCREASED SCTY OF THE UNIVERSY’S TENURE SYSTEM HAS ALSO BEEN A FEATURE OF HER TIME AS FAS AN. AFTER THE NIAL OF TENURE FOR FORMER ROMANCE LANGUAG AND LERATURE PROFSOR LIA GARCíA PEñA FUELED BACKLASH AMONG STUNTS, FACULTY, AND SCHOLARS, GAY LNCHED A REVIEW OF THE TENURE PROMOTN PROCS, WHICH NCLUD LAST YEAR. CONTROVERSY SURROUNDG THE TENURE PROCS RURFACED EARLY 2021 WHEN FORMER PROFSOR CORNEL R. WT ’74 PARTED HARVARD AFTER CLAIMG THE UNIVERSY REJECTED HIS REQUT TO BE NSIRED FOR A TENURED POSN.ADVERTISEMENTDURG GAY’S TENURE, HARVARD WAS ROILED BY PUBLIC ACCATNS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND MISNDUCT AGAST HIGH-PROFILE PROFSORS. THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUTN REPORTED EARLY 2018 THAT FORMER GOVERNMENT PROFSOR JE I. DOMGUEZ FACED SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATNS OM AT LEAST 18 WOMEN OVER NEARLY FOUR S WHILE RISG THROUGH THE UNIVERSY’S RANKS. GAY STRIPPED DOMGUEZ OF HIS EMER STAT DURG HER FIRST YEAR AS AN.MONTHS LATER, SHE PLACED ENOMICS PROFSOR ROLAND G. FRYER JR. ON ADMISTRATIVE LEAVE AFTER HARVARD FOUND HE VLATED S SEXUAL HARASSMENT POLICI, AND 2020, ACCATNS AROSE AGAST ANTHROPOLOGY PROFSORS GARY URTON AND JOHN L. COMAROFF.GAY STRIPPED URTON OF HIS EMER STAT AND BANNED HIM OM THE FAS MP AND SHE PLACED COMAROFF ON UNPAID ADMISTRATIVE LEAVE AFTER SEPARATE TERNAL VTIGATNS FOUND THE TWO MEN BREACHED HARVARD SEXUAL HARASSMENT POLICI. THIS YEAR, THREE GRADUATE STUNTS SUED HARVARD FOR ALLEGEDLY IGNORG AND MISHANDLG REPORTS OF COMAROFF’S BEHAVR.COMAROFF AND FRYER HAVE SCE RETURNED TO THE CLASSROOM.ON THURSDAY, GAY SAID SHE WAS “GRATEFUL BEYOND WORDS” TO HAVE BEEN SELECTED AS PRINT.“AS I START MY TENURE, THERE’S SO MUCH MORE FOR ME TO DISVER ABOUT THE STUTN THAT I LOVE, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO DOG ALL OF THAT WH OUR WHOLE MUNY,” SHE SAID.—STAFF WRER NIA L. ORAKWUE N BE REACHED AT —STAFF WRER ELIAS J. 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On a personal ont, Gay is married to Christopher C. Clde Gay beme a leadg voice on Amerin polil participatn. Sce jog Harvard 2006 as a profsor of ernment as well as of Ain and Ain Amerin studi, Clde Gay has rearched a wi range of topics.

After the news was announced, Clde Gay gave her acceptance speech and advoted for creased llaboratn between the var schools at the prtig universy. In a statement issued to the Harvard Crimson, Baw scribed Clde Gay as a "terrific amic lear wh a keen md, great learship and munitn skills. Before Clde Gay was tapped as Harvard’s first print of lor, she had already left her mark on the Universy’s nearly 400-year S.

Przker ’81, the senr fellow of the Harvard Corporatn, announced Thursday that Gay — who has served as an of the Faculty of Arts and Scienc sce 2018 — would succeed Print Lawrence S. Fst, who led the Universy om 2007 to Gay is no stranger to breakg barriers.

CLDE GAY: 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT HARVARD’S FIRST BLACK PRINT

Government om Harvard 1998, first joed the faculty as a Government profsor 2006 and rose to the role of an of the Social Scienc divisn remarks at a Thursday receptn the Smh Camp Center, Gay — the dghter of two Haian immigrants — creded her parents wh stillg her an appreciatn for tn.

CLDE GAY NAMED HARVARD’S FIRST BLACK PRINT — HERE’S WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT HER

Wh very ltle and put themselv through llege while raisg our fay, ” Gay said. ”Gay’s mother was a nurse, and her father was an engeer for the U. His work brought Gay to Sdi Arabia, where she spent a portn of her childhood.

She now liv Cambridge wh her hband and graduatg 1988 om Phillips Exeter Amy, a private New Hampshire boardg school where she still serv as a tstee, Gay matriculated at Stanford and received a bachelor’s gree enomics 1992, wng a prize for her senr then returned to the East Coast as a graduate stunt Harvard’s Government partment, “full of excement. ”“I n’t help but thk of a much younger versn of myself, a first-year graduate stunt movg to Hasks Hall, luggg the thgs that seemed most sential to my succs at the time: a futon, a Mac Classic II, and a st iron skillet for yg plantas, ” Gay said Thursday.

“That Clde uld not possibly have imaged that her path would lead here, but I rry forward both her excement and her belief the fe possibily of Harvard, ” Gay Gay pleted her Ph.