Clde Gay Tak Office As Harvard’s First Black Print - 21Nety

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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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MEET CLDE GAY’S HBAND DR CHRISTOPHER AFENDULIS

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

Harvard Corporatn Senr Fellow Penny Przker ’81, who led the printial search team, troduced Faculty of Arts and Scienc Dean Clde Gay as Harvard’s 30th print ont of a crowd of admistrators, Corporatn members, and other Harvard affiliat gathered the Smh Camp Center.

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

Clde Gay will serve as Harvard’s 30th print, the Universy announced Thursday. * picture of claudine gay *

When she took to the stage, Gay joked that she didn't expect so many people to attend the receptn — “I thought I was the only person still on mp” — before talkg about her upbrgg as a dghter of Haian immigrants, immersn to amia, and visn for Harvard. In the hours sce the announcement of Gay's princy, many members of Harvard's faculty have exprsed nfince her, the current an of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc, will be the first person of lor and send woman to serve as Harvard Universy Palandjian ’93 (right) filled the seat on the Harvard Corporatn William F. 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.

“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.

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. “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.

HARVARD UNIVERSY APPOTS CLDE GAY AS SCHOOL’S FIRST BLACK PRINT

Clde Gay, the an of the Faculty of Arts and Scienc, will be the universy’s first Black lear, and the send woman. She will take office jt as the universy fac a Supreme Court cisn on affirmative actn. * picture of claudine 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. “I am humbled by the nfince that the erng boards have placed me and by the prospect of succeedg Print Baw leadg this remarkable stutn, ” Gay said the Harvard Gazette.

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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. 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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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New Print-elect Clde Gay is troduced to Harvard muny. * picture of claudine gay *

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTHarvard Nam a New Print, an Insir and Historic FirstClde Gay, the an of the Faculty of Arts and Scienc, will be the universy’s first Black lear, and the send woman.

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BOSTON (AP) — Harvard Universy announced Thursday that Clde Gay will bee s 30th print, makg her the first Black person and the send woman to lead the Ivy League school. * picture of claudine gay *

Clde Gay will be the 30th print of the Szymczak for The New York TimHarvard Universy announced on Thursday that s new print would be Clde Gay, the an of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc. Gay will take office July 2023, jt as the universy fac a pivotal Supreme Court cisn that may force to revise s longstandg admissns procs, which have been cricized for nsirg factors that favor whe and wealthy ndidat while also g affirmative actn to bolster enrollment by Black and Hispanic a proponent of creased diversy hirg, as well as an expert on mory reprentatn and polil participatn ernment, Dr.

Gay retroduced herself to the Harvard muny, the place where she started as a graduate stunt three s ago, luggg a futon and a st-iron skillet to y plantas to Hasks Hall.

“That Clde uld have not possibly imaged her path would lead here, ” she Gay said that at a time of profound social, polil and technologil change, Harvard would strive to be more nnected to the world, cludg through scholarships, partnerships and public engagement.

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Gay will be the Ivy League school's first Black lear, and only the send woman to be appoted s print sce s foundg 1636. * picture of claudine gay *

Gay was an assistant profsor and associate profsor of polil science at Stanford Universy, where she earned a bachelor’s gree enomics.

Most of the profsors later retracted their nam om the Gay had also been the center of a ntroversy over the 2019 cisn to ny tenure to Lia García Peña, a profsor of Romance language and lerature. Gay recently told The Harvard Crimson that the llege would rema “unwaverg our mment to buildg and nurturg a diverse and vibrant mp muny.

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. 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.

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Gay is the only Black print the Ivy League and says the ‘ivory tower’ should not be the future of amia * picture of claudine gay *

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.

HARVARD NAM CLDE GAY S 30TH PRINT, FIRST BLACK LEAR UNIVERSY'S HISTORY

Clde Gay is now officially at the helm of Harvard Universy. Her official first day as the stutn’s Print was July 1. She is the first Black person or person of lor to ever hold that tle the universy’s 386-year history. It was first announced December 2022 that Gay would bee Harvard’s 30th print. She succeed Lawrence S. Baw, who stepped down June 2023. Gay joed Harvard’s faculty 2006 as an expert on mocracy and polil reprentatn the Government Department. She beme an of the FAS’s Social Scienc Divisn  2015. She then moved to the role of an of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc 2018. “When I image Harvard the years ahead, I see a universy that is even more nnected to the world through our scholarship,” Gay said at an event announcg her selectn as print December 2022. “The ia of the ivory tower — that is the past, not the future, of amia. We don’t exist outsi of society, but as... * picture of claudine gay *

“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. ”“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, 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 iative, wh over 70 affiliated profsors, funds and nducts multidisciplary rearch to social and enomic equaly and clus a postdoctoral FAS an, Gay has ma stris the search for ethnic studi scholars at Harvard. 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.

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Wt ’74 parted Harvard after claimg the Universy rejected his requt to be nsired for a tenured Gay’s tenure, Harvard was roiled by public accatns of sexual harassment and misnduct agast high-profile profsors. Comaroff and Fryer have sce returned to the Thursday, Gay said she was “grateful beyond words” to have been selected as print. Amerin polil scientist Clde Gay has been appoted as Harvard Universy's 30th print, makg her the first black person to hold this posn.

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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.

Clde Gay, a wily admired higher tn lear and distguished scholar of mocracy and polil participatn, will bee the 30th print of Harvard Universy on July 1.

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Sce 2018, Gay has served as the Edgerley Fay Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc (FAS), the Universy’s largt and most amilly diverse faculty, spanng the blogil and physil scienc and engeerg, the social scienc, and the humani and arts.

The dghter of Haian immigrants, Gay received her bachelor’s gree 1992 om Stanford, where she majored enomics and was award the Anna Lra Myers Prize for bt unrgraduate this. A quantative social scientist wh expertise polil behavr, Gay served as an assistant profsor and then tenured associate profsor at Stanford before beg reced to Harvard 2006 as a profsor of ernment.

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Speakg after her electn, Gay said, “I am humbled by the nfince that the erng boards have placed me and by the prospect of succeedg Print Baw leadg this remarkable stutn. “Today, we are a moment of remarkable and acceleratg change — socially, polilly, enomilly, and technologilly, ” said Gay. Gay was elected to the princy today by the Harvard Corporatn, the Universy’s prcipal erng board, wh the nsent of the Universy’s Board of Overseers.

CLDE GAY NAMED HARVARD UNIVERSY'S 1ST BLACK PRINT

Known for her broad tellectual cursy and terdisciplary outlook, Gay is regnized as a highly fluential expert on Amerin polil participatn. A member of the Amerin Amy of Arts and Scienc, Gay has pursued her scholarship as a fellow at the Public Policy Instute of California, the Center for Advanced Study the Behavral Scienc, and the Radcliffe Instute for Advanced Study at Harvard. “Clde Gay b one person many of the attribut that will be required of Harvard’s new print, ” said Shirley Tilghman, who served as print of Prceton Universy om 2001 to 2013, is profsor emera of molecular blogy and public affairs at Prceton, and serv on the Harvard Corporatn.

Reactg to Gay’s appotment, Ruth Simmons, print of Prairie View A&M Universy and print emera of Brown Universy, said, “In selectg Clde Gay as the next print, Harvard’s erng boards have monstrated a mment to ensurg that Harvard remas not only the preement universy the world but also the universy that leads wh creasg relevance to the world today. As an of FAS, Gay has advanced an amb agenda of amic prri, wh a foc on brgg rourc om across discipl to bear on issu of public nsequence.

Announcg the search, Gay noted that “fightg the climate crisis requir engagement by the full breadth of amic discipl.

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In addn, Gay has been engaged a range of amic and programmatic iativ, cludg as a leadg voice wh both the Amic Council and the Provost’s Council, the two prcipal Universy-wi foms for chartg stutnal prri and plans. Gay also has a ep mment to amic eedom, llg “the touchstone for everythg we are tryg to achieve, ” and has been a strong advote for clive excellence throughout her reer, cludg durg her anship.

“I uldn’t be more pleased by the selectn of Clde Gay as the next Harvard print, ” said Hopi Hoekstra, Alexanr Agassiz Profsor of Zoology at Harvard Universy.

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