Clde Gay, Harvard's new print: thoughtful and unflappable

Contents:

• HARVARD NAM CLDE GAY 30TH PRINT
• CLDE GAY: 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT HARVARD’S FIRST BLACK PRINT
• HARVARD UNIVERSY CREAT GAY PROFSORSHIP ROLE
• ‘QUIET STRENGTH’ AT THE TOP: IN CLDE GAY, HARVARD TURNS TO OL, UNFLAPPABLE LEARSHIP AT A TIME OF HIGHER TN TURMOIL
• LBIAN HARVARD PROFSORS: DON’T ERASE ANTI-GAY BIGOT’S NAME FROM OUR HOME
• HARVARD UNIVERSY NAM CLDE GAY PRINT, FIRST PERSON OF LOR ROLE
• GAY AT HLS: A BRIEF HISTORY
• CLDE GAY

HARVARD NAM CLDE GAY 30TH PRINT

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. 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.

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.

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

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. “Dean Gay’s abily to lead om prciple and valu, alongsi a natural stct to brg people together om across discipl and areas of expertise to addrs big challeng, will serve Harvard well the years to e, ” said Stubbs. “Clde Gay has monstrated visn to advance rearch and tn, ep mment to Harvard’s missn, temperament to listen and learn om the many rich sourc of expertise our faculty, and fortu to make difficult cisns.

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.

HARVARD UNIVERSY CREAT GAY PROFSORSHIP ROLE

“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.

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.

‘QUIET STRENGTH’ AT THE TOP: IN CLDE GAY, HARVARD TURNS TO OL, UNFLAPPABLE LEARSHIP AT A TIME OF HIGHER TN TURMOIL

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. BOSTON (Rters) - Harvard Universy is creatg an endowed profsorship lbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual studi, the first of s kd the Uned Stat and reflectg a rise sex-related amia Ivy League school will ve visg scholars to teach on sexualy and issu related to sexual mori for one semter each, a Harvard official said on other universi have urse offergs and gree programs sexualy studi, Harvard’s healthy endowment allows the profsorship on the subject to be fund perpetuy, the first universy the untry to do Harvard Gay & Lbian Cc raised $1. “It’s not so much that we’ve been able to raise this money, ’s that Harvard and the faculty at Harvard have accepted this perpetual endowment for gay and lbian studi, ” said Mchell Adams of the Harvard Board of Overseers, one of two erng boards at the Cambridge, Massachetts, posn dit growg acceptance of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny, Adams add.

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. 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. “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.

LBIAN HARVARD PROFSORS: DON’T ERASE ANTI-GAY BIGOT’S NAME FROM OUR HOME

Days later, after more allegatns emerged agast the profsor, John Comaroff, nearly all the faculty members disavowed their oute of the unually public spat — surrenr by the challengg profsors, vditn for Gay — was unsurprisg to close observers of her reer, who scribed her as a eply thoughtful and unflappable lear who never mak a move whout first studyg her optns om every angle. ”Harvard profsors said that elevatg Gay, a polil scientist who has spent most of her reer at the universy and held learship rol for nearly a , the stutn has opted for an sir’s steady, rigoro, and studly unflamboyant learship as the school, and the higher tn dtry wr large, fac unmon challeng.

In the weeks before Gay tak charge, the US Supreme Court is expected to outlaw affirmative actn llege admissns, privg Harvard and other selective schools of a tool they say is sential to admtg a racially diverse class. The anticipated lg uld prove an existential threat to the kd of universy Harvard wants to be — and Gay to lead; at the least, would create a stern tt for her and her peers amic learship across the land, a hort that will be watchg tently to see how she meets at Harvard believe Gay uld prove the perfect match for the moment.

HARVARD UNIVERSY NAM CLDE GAY PRINT, FIRST PERSON OF LOR ROLE

Jennifer Hochschild, a profsor of ernment and Ain Amerin studi, said Gay has the right temperament and valu to gui Harvard to a post–affirmative actn era, a time bound to be rife wh ntent bat over how diversy should be fed and how universi n pursue whout nng afoul of the, she said, has “a very ep, maybe lifelong mment to diversy done the right way. Natnal policians are attackg — wh rhetoric and policy — what they view as an excsive liberal bias higher tn at the same time as public nfince lleg and universi has cled to the lowt level to home, Gay, who is 52, will also oversee Harvard’s $100 ln effort to redrs s early ti to slavery and advance the universy’s sprawlg velopment plans Allston.

GAY AT HLS: A BRIEF HISTORY

“She’s gog to be phg to say the need to be full, hont nversatns, and they need to be guid by rearch, ” said Dan Carpenter, the chair of Harvard’s ernment partment, who has worked wh Gay for more than 20 years. Harvard UniversyWhen Gay was a girl, her parents — Haian immigrants to the Uned Stat — ma pla that she was expected to go to llege, she said a December speech after she was named to succeed current Harvard print Lawrence Baw. Clde Gay (third om right), 1991, on a summer retreat for stunts who served as rint assistants Kimball Hall, a Stanford Universy RickfordJohnson, who is Black, said that Gay red about matters of racial jtice but said she tend to engage om a scholarly remove.

”As a senr, she won the enomics partment’s award for bt unrgraduate Stanford, Gay enrolled a PhD program at Harvard and arrived Cambridge wh “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, ” she said the December tend to study how race and inty impacted Amerin polics.

CLDE GAY

” Analyzg natnal data on voter preferenc, she found that the more polilly knowledgeable Black voters were, the more their social views pulled them away om the Democratic Cropper, who earned a doctorate polil science at Harvard unr Gay’s directn, said her former mentor was a master at brgg “clear, rigoro evince to bear” on topics that had gotten “stuck anecdot. ”In 1998, Gay won the ernment partment’s award for the year’s bt PhD dissertatn — for her study of the polil signifince of electg Black officials — and went on to publish articl based on that rearch top journals. “I thk she regnized that at least the spac, there are not a lot of Black and brown profsors, ” she was a moment, soon after Gay returned to Harvard as a profsor, when Carpenter, the ernment partment chair, realized she was sted for was leadg a search mtee to hire a new profsor and her fellow faculty members were divid to factns supportg different mtee meetgs, emotns ran hot, Carpenter relled.

Profsors repeatedly terpted Gay and argued over one another, he was a clash of ias and egos faiar the world of “high-powered amia, ” Carpenter said, the kd of crossfire that n overwhelm some lears or, worse, tempt them to jo the ay. Now Gay, om her relatively new perch, took a leadg role the universy’s rponse to a March 4, 2020 — more than a week before Print Donald Tmp’s Oval Office addrs and the spensn of the NBA season — Gay told faculty and staff an e-mail to beg “ntgency planng. ”If there is one cricism of Gay’s selectn as print is that she has been, through her amic reer, more of an admistrator than a Harvard profsors have gmbled that her rerd of scholarly publitns — a metric that often f the amy’s peckg orr — is paratively slight.