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Clde Gay, who is married to hband Christopher C. Afendulis, has been named Harvard's 30th print and first Black lear.

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CLDE GAY ANNOUNC RACIAL-JTICE INIATIV

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As protts about racial equy ntue across the untry, Clde Gay, an of the Faculty of Arts and Scienc (FAS), announced a seri of iativ to addrs racial and ethnic equaly—cludg faculty appotments and the addn of an associate an of diversy, cln, and belongg. “This moment offers a profound opportuny for stutnal change that should not and nnot be squanred, ” Gay wrote an email to the mp muny. ”On the amic si, Gay announced a reactivatn of the “clter hire” ethnicy, digeney, and migratn that origally lnched October 2019—part of FAS’s rponse to tense stunt tert , and prsure for, teachg and learng ethnic studi.

Gay add that the Inequaly Ameri postdoctoral fellowship program will be expand om two fellows to appotment of the gural associate an, Gay said, will occur soon. ” The posn parallels the recently announced Universy-level chief diversy and cln ’s announcements do not exhst FAS’s new mments, Gay said.

Gay announced the fall lnch of the Task Force on Visual Culture and Signage, led by an of arts and humani Rob Kelsey. Gay said the task force will nvene faculty, staff, and stunts “to nduct a prehensive study of our visual culture and articulate prcipl and rmed guil for evolvg the culture and imagery of the FAS.

35 HARVARD PROFSORS RETRACT SUPPORT FOR LETTER QUTNG RULTS OF COMAROFF {GRID-ROW-START:2;GRID-LUMN-START:2;GRID-LUMN-END:3;}@MEDIA (MAX-WIDTH:950PX){{GRID-LUMN-START:1;GRID-LUMN-END:2;}}{MARG-BOTTOM:1EM;}{DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;MAX-WIDTH:640PX;Z-X:20;POSN:RELATIVE;} > DIV{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX 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;}NEARLY ALL OF THE HARVARD PROFSORS WHO SIGNED ONTO AN OPEN LETTER QUTNG THE RULTS OF MISNDUCT VTIGATNS TO JOHN COMAROFF LAST WEEK HAVE WALKED BACK THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE MSAGE. IMG{PADDG-RIGHT:7PX;}BY {LOR:#BA0600;}RYAN N. {BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;MAX-WIDTH:600PX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX TO;FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;MARG-BOTTOM:5PX;} A{LOR:#7B1B18;}BY ARIEL H. KIM AND MEIMEI XU, CRIMSON STAFF {BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;MAX-WIDTH:600PX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX TO;}{DISPLAY:NONE;}@MEDIA (MAX-WIDTH:950PX){{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;MAX-WIDTH:600PX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX TO;DISPLAY:BLOCK;PADDG-TOP:20PX;PADDG-BOTTOM:20PX;MARG-TOP:20PX;BORR-TOP:1PX SOLID #EBEBEB;BORR-BOTTOM:1PX SOLID #EBEBEB;}}{DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-FLEX-DIRECTN:LUMN;-MS-FLEX-DIRECTN:LUMN;FLEX-DIRECTN:LUMN;WIDTH:TO;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;POSN:-WEBK-STICKY;POSN:STICKY;TOP:70PX;-WEBK-FLEX-DIRECTN:ROW;-MS-FLEX-DIRECTN:ROW;FLEX-DIRECTN:ROW;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:UNSET;} {DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG:0PX;} > SPAN{WIDTH:35PX !IMPORTANT;HEIGHT:35PX !IMPORTANT;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;BORR-RADI:50%;} SVG{WIDTH:25PX !IMPORTANT;HEIGHT:35PX !IMPORTANT;} .ADDTHIS_BUTTON_EMAIL > SPAN, .ADDTHIS_BUTTON_PRT > SPAN, .ADDTHIS_BUTTON_LK > SPAN{BACKGROUND-LOR:#EBEBEB !IMPORTANT;} .ADDTHIS_UNTER .ADDTHIS_BUTTON_EXPAND{WIDTH:35PX;HEIGHT:35PX;MARG:0PX;PADDG:0PX;BACKGROUND:NONE;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;BORR:1PX SOLID #EBEBEB;BORR-RADI:50%;LOR:#EBEBEB !IMPORTANT;} .ADDTHIS_BUTTON_PACT{DISPLAY:NONE !IMPORTANT;} {MARG:0PX 5PX;}{POSN:RELATIVE;WIDTH:100%;} P{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;MARG:0PX TO;PADDG:0PX 20PX;BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;FONT:17PX/25PX GEIA,SERIF;MARG-TOP:1EM;MARG-BOTTOM:1EM;} OL{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;MARG:0PX TO;PADDG:0PX 20PX;BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;FONT:17PX/25PX GEIA,SERIF;PADDG-LEFT:80PX;} P A, OL A, P A:VISED, OL A:VISED{LOR:#BA0600;-WEBK-TRANSN:0.3S ALL;TRANSN:0.3S ALL;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} P A:HOVER, OL A:HOVER{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;MARG:0PX TO;PADDG:0PX 20PX;BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;MARG-TOP:1EM;MARG-BOTTOM:1EM;LOR:#7B1B18;}UPDATED: FEBARY 11, 2022 AT 4:25 P.M.ALMOST ALL OF THE HARVARD PROFSORS WHO SIGNED ONTO AN OPEN LETTER LAST WEEK THAT QUTNED THE RULTS OF MISNDUCT VTIGATNS TO PROFSOR JOHN L. COMAROFF HAVE RETRACTED THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE MSAGE.THIRTY-FOUR OF THE 38 FACULTY MEMBERS WHO SIGNED ONTO THE LETTER, CLUDG SOME OF HARVARD’S MOST PROMENT SCHOLARS, SIGNED A RETRACTN LETTER WEDNDAY SAYG THEY “FAILED TO APPRECIATE THE IMPACT” THEIR PREV MSAGE WOULD HAVE. ONE OTHER PROFSOR, WHOSE NAME DID NOT APPEAR ON THE RETRACTN LETTER, WROTE AN EMAIL THAT HE, TOO, RETRACTED SUPPORT FOR THE ORIGAL STATEMENT.HARVARD FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC DEAN CLDE GAY SANCTNED COMAROFF LAST MONTH AFTER UNIVERSY VTIGATNS FOUND THAT HE VLATED THE SCHOOL’S SEXUAL AND PROFSNAL NDUCT POLICI. NOW ON UNPAID LEAVE, HE IS BARRED OM TEACHG REQUIRED URS AND TAKG ON ADDNAL ADVISE THROUGH THE NEXT AMIC YEAR.THE IAL LETTER POSED A SERI OF SHARP QUTNS ABOUT SANCTNS LEVIED AGAST COMAROFF, WHO SCRIBED AS “AN EXCELLENT LLEAGUE, ADVISOR AND MTED UNIVERSY CIZEN.” BUT PROFSORS BEGAN TO PULL THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE LETTER AFTER A FERAL LAWSU FILED AGAST HARVARD ON TUDAY TAILED YEARS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATNS AGAST COMAROFF — SOME OF WHICH HAD BEEN REPORTED {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;}“OUR NCERNS WERE TRANSPARENCY, PROCS AND UNIVERSY PROCR, WHICH GO BEYOND THE MERS OF ANY DIVIDUAL SE,” THE RETRACTN LETTER SAID. “WE FAILED TO APPRECIATE THE IMPACT THAT THIS WOULD HAVE ON OUR STUNTS, AND WE WERE LACKG FULL RMATN ABOUT THE SE. WE ARE MTED TO ALL STUNTS EXPERIENCG HARVARD AS A SAFE AND EQUABLE STUTN FOR TEACHG AND LEARNG.”THE IAL OPEN LETTER, WHICH WAS SENT TO HARVARD ADMISTRATORS, WAS SIGNED BY AN ARRAY OF WELL-KNOWN PROFSORS, CLUDG HENRY LOUIS GAT JR., JILL LEPORE, STEPHEN J. GREENBLATT, AND FORMER HARVARD COLLEGE DEAN EVELYNN M. HAMMONDS.HARVARD LAW SCHOOL PROFSORS DAVID W. KENNEDY, RANDALL L. KENNEDY, AND DUNN KENNEDY ’64 ALL CLED TO SIGN ONTO THE {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;}ADVERTISEMENT“I CLED TO RETRACT MY SIGNATURE BEE I THK THE LETTER WAS AND STILL IS AN APPROPRIATE RPONSE TO THE ACTNS OF THE UNIVERSY THE SE,” DUNN KENNEDY WROTE AN EMAIL WEDNDAY AFTERNOON.RANDALL KENNEDY WROTE AN EMAIL THAT HIS NCERNS ABOUT THE UNIVERSY’S HANDLG OF THE COMAROFF SE REMAED.“THE IAL OPEN LETTER DITED EP NCERN, BASED ON AVAILABLE RMATN, ABOUT THE UNIVERSY’S TREATMENT OF PROFSOR COMAROFF,” HE WROTE. “OF URSE THE SIGNATORI DID NOT KNOW ABOUT EVERYTHG THAT MIGHT BE PERTENT. IF PLETE KNOWLEDGE WAS A [PREREQUISE] FOR VOICG NCERN, THERE MIGHT WELL BE NO SUABLE OCSN FOR DOG SO. NO NEW RMATN ABOUT WHICH I AM AWARE ERAS THE [WORRI] THAT PROMPTED ME TO SIGN THE LETTER THE FIRST PLACE.”UNIVERSY PROFSOR DOUGLAS A. MELTON’S NAME WAS ABSENT OM THE RETRACTN LETTER’S LIST OF SIGNATORI, BUT HE WROTE AN EMAIL FRIDAY — ALMOST TWO DAYS AFTER THE RETRACTN LETTER WAS FIRST REPORTED — THAT HE NO LONGER SUPPORTED THE IAL MSAGE.THE IAL LETTER SPARKED FUROR AMONG HARVARD GRADUATE STUNTS AND OTHER FACULTY. ON TUDAY, 73 OTHER FACULTY MEMBERS NMNED THE LETTER A RPONSE PUBLISHED THE CRIMSON.“AS FACULTY, WE SHOULD BE MANDG BETTER PROTECTNS AND MORE EXPEDIENT, TRANSPARENT, EQUABLE, AND PENNT VTIGATIVE PROCR,” THE RPONSE LETTER READS. “WE MT DO SO WHOUT PRUMG TO KNOW THE FULL FDGS OF NFINTIAL VTIGATNS OR ACTG WAYS THAT TIMIDATE STUNTS AND HIB THEM OM DIVULGG EXPERIENC OF HARM.”IN A RPONSE SENT TO THE SIGNATORI OF THE OPEN LETTER LAST THURSDAY, GAY WARNED OF “THE OBV DANGERS OF AN ASYMMETRY OF RMATN.”“BE AWARE THAT IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ACCS TO THE FULL REVIEW, AND STEAD ARE RELYG ON PUBLIC ACUNTS RELAYED THROUGH THE MEDIA OR ONLY WHAT IS SHARED BY ONE PARTY TO A PLAT, YOU ARE NECSARILY OPERATG WHOUT A PREHENSIVE UNRSTANDG OF THE FACTS THAT HAVE MOTIVATED THE RPONSE,” GAY WROTE.COMAROFF WAS FIRST PLACED ON LEAVE AUGT 2020 AFTER THE CRIMSON REPORTED THAT AT LEAST THREE FEMALE STUNTS WERE NTACT WH HARVARD’S TLE IX OFFICE ABOUT ALLEGATNS OF UNWANTED TOUCHG, VERBAL SEXUAL HARASSMENT, AND PROFSNAL RETALIATN.AFTER THE LAWSU ME OUT ON TUDAY, APOLOGI BEGAN ROLLG OM PROFSORS WHO SIGNED THE IAL LETTER.ADVERTISEMENT“I EPLY REGRET HAVG SIGNED THE LETTER,” MARIANO SISKD, A PROFSOR OF ROMANCE LANGUAG AND LERATUR WROTE A STATEMENT. “I DON’T KNOW JOHN COMAROFF PERSONALLY. INIALLY, I SIGNED BEE I AGREED WH THE NEED TO TABLISH TRANSPARENT, FAIR, AND EFFECTIVE TLE IX PROCR. HOWEVER, WHEN I READ DEAN GAY’S RPONSE AND NSIRED MORE REFULLY THE LETTER’S POTENTIAL EFFECT ON THOSE WHO HAD EXPERIENCED SEXUAL-BASED MISNDUCT, I REALIZED I HAD MA A TERRIBLE MISTAKE. I WANT TO APOLOGIZE TO MY STUNTS AND I WANT THEM TO KNOW THAT I FULLY SUPPORT ALL STUNTS FACG THE DIFFICULT CISN TO E FORWARD WH TLE IX PLATS.”HISTORY PROFSOR MAYA JASANOFF WROTE THAT SHE “SIGNED THE LETTER AS AN ADVOTE OF TRANSPARENCY AND DUE PROCS UNIVERSY AFFAIRS,” BUT ADD THAT SHE “TOTALLY FAILED TO NSIR THE SIGNAL WOULD SEND TO OUR STUNTS.”“THIS WAS A SER LAPSE OF JUDGMENT AND I APOLOGIZE FOR MY MISTAKE,” SHE WROTE.THE RETRACTN LETTER WAS FIRST REPORTED WEDNDAY BY THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUTN.EDOR’S NOTE: THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO CLU THE MOST UP-TO-DATE VERSN OF A LETTER OM 34 FACULTY MEMBERS RETRACTG THEIR SUPPORT FOR A STATEMENT QUTNG THE RULTS OF MISNDUCT VTIGATNS TO PROFSOR JOHN L. COMAROFF. A PREV VERSN OF THE ARTICLE CLUD A PY OF THE RETRACTN LETTER SENT TO THE CRIMSON ON WEDNDAY THAT LISTED HARVARD LAW SCHOOL PROFSOR DAVID W. KENNEDY AS A SIGNATORY. IN FACT, KENNEDY DID NOT SIGN ONTO THE RETRACTN LETTER. THE PREV VERSN OF THE RETRACTN LETTER DID NOT LIST PROFSOR LUCIE E. WHE AS A SIGNATORY. SHE WAS LATER ADD, WHICH IS REFLECTED THE UPDATED ERATN. THE UPDATED RETRACTN LETTER WAS SENT TO THE CRIMSON THURSDAY MORNG.THE STORY HAS ALSO BEEN UPDATED TO CLU RMATN OM UNIVERSY PROFSOR DOUGLAS A. MELTON, WHO WALKED BACK HIS SUPPORT FOR THE ORIGAL LETTER ON FRIDAY, AFTER THE RETRACTN LETTER WAS SENT TO THE CRIMSON.—STAFF WRER ARIEL H. KIM N BE REACHED AT —STAFF WRER MEIMEI XU N BE REACHED AT FOLLOW HER ON TWTER @{FONT-SIZE:16.5PX;LE-HEIGHT:26PX;BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;MAX-WIDTH:600PX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX TO;MARG:1EM TO;} A{LOR:#7B1B18;}WANT TO KEEP UP WH BREAKG NEWS? 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JOHN COMAROFF PLACED ON LEAVE FOLLOWG SEXUAL HARASSMENT, PROFSNAL MISNDUCT INQUIRIPROTECTED BY DES-OLD POWER STCTUR, THREE RENOWNED HARVARD ANTHROPOLOGISTS FACE ALLEGATNS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT38 HARVARD FACULTY SIGN OPEN LETTER QUTNG RULTS OF MISNDUCT INVTIGATNS TO PROF. JOHN COMAROFFLAWSU ALLEG HARVARD IGNORED SEXUAL HARASSMENT COMPLATS AGAST PROF. 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)“The iativ are jt a startg place, ” Gay said. Harvard Faculty of Arts and Scienc Dean Clde Gay sanctned Comaroff last month after Universy vtigatns found that he vlated the school’s sexual and profsnal nduct polici. ”In a rponse sent to the signatori of the open letter last Thursday, Gay warned of “the obv dangers of an asymmetry of rmatn.

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

”“Be aware that if you do not have accs to the full review, and stead are relyg on public acunts relayed through the media or only what is shared by one party to a plat, you are necsarily operatg whout a prehensive unrstandg of the facts that have motivated the rponse, ” Gay wrote. However, when I read Dean Gay’s rponse and nsired more refully the letter’s potential effect on those who had experienced sexual-based misnduct, I realized I had ma a terrible mistake. Harvard Universy announced Thursday that Clde Gay will bee s next print.

Gay, who is currently the an of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc, will be the school’s first Black lear and the send woman ever to hold the posn when she tak over next are five thgs to know about the history-makg ’s the dghter of Haian immigrantsGay, 52, was born New York Cy, where her parents, Haian immigrants to the U. Gay spent much of her childhood first New York and then Sdi Arabia, where her father worked for the U.

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COMAROFF FOR YEARS.LS THAN 36 HOURS AFTER THE SU WAS FILED, 34 FACULTY MEMBERS RETRACTED THEIR SUPPORT FOR A LETTER THEY HAD SIGNED JT DAYS EARLIER THAT QUTNED THE RULTS OF MISNDUCT VTIGATNS TO COMAROFF, A PROFSOR OF AIN AND AIN AMERIN STUDI AND ANTHROPOLOGY. THE SIGNATORI CLUD SOME OF HARVARD’S BT-KNOWN SCHOLARS.HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE NTROVERSY.WHAT ARE THE ALLEGATNS AGAST COMAROFF?

“My parents believed that tn opens every door, but of urse they gave me three optns: I uld bee an engeer, a doctor or a lawyer, which I’m sure that other kids of immigrant parents uld relate to, ” Gay said at an announcement ceremony on Thursday. ”Her ti to Harvard n epAfter receivg her bachelor’s gree enomics om Stanford 1992, Gay enrolled graduate school at Harvard, receivg her Ph.

MEET CLDE GAY’S HBAND DR CHRISTOPHER AFENDULIS

Gay was also appoted profsor of Ain and Ain Amerin Studi the followg year.

HARVARD NAM CLDE GAY 30TH PRINT

Acrdg to Gay’s b on Harvard’s webse, she has “explored such topics as how the electn of mory officeholrs affects cizens’ perceptns of their ernment and their tert polics and public affairs; how neighborhood environments shape racial and polil attus among Black Amerins; the roots of petn and operatn between mory groups, wh a particular foc on relatns between Black Amerins and Latos; and the nsequenc of hog mobily programs for polil participatn among the poor.

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

”Gay, pictured here wh her hband, Chris Afendulis, will be Harvard's first Black lear.

(Er Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Imag)Gay is ld by many of her lleagu... “She is a scholar of unmon creativy and rigor, wh a strong workg knowledge of the opportuni and challeng facg the FAS, ” current Harvard Print Larry Baw said 2018 when Gay beme an. ”When Gay was troduced at Thursday’s announcement ceremony, she received a standg ovatn....

CLDE GAY

But her tenure as an has not been whout ntroversyEarlier this year, more than three dozen Harvard profsors signed an open letter to Gay cricizg her cisn to place a profsor on unpaid leave followg allegatns of sexual misnduct.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* CLAUDINE GAY HARVARD LETTER

Who is Clde Gay married to? Personal life explored as Harvard Universy appots first Black Print .

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