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Zemurray Professor of Anthropology emerita Cora DuBois, who taught at the University for 15 years, died Sunday in a Brookline nursing home. She was 87 years old.
DuBois, who retired in 1969, died of pneumonia and heart failure, said Jeanne Taylor, who was her companion for more than 40 years.
Harvard lured this intellectual luminary to Cambridge by offering him the chairmanship of the Afro-Am Department, the directorship of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute and an undoubtedly substantial salary. Now the administration must prove it can attract lesser-known junior faculty in the field. Two professors do not a department...
"The situation at Harvard is ideal. Harvard has a department--not just a committee--and the DuBois institute is already in place. It has an excellent track record and attracts outside funding. With the limitless potential of the DuBois institute Harvard is more attractive than any other place," says Rampersad...
The primary focus of the DuBois Institute is a fellowship program that brings in visiting senior and junior scholars. This year, the institute is sponsoring 17 individuals, including Gates--who is participating as a non-resident. The institute also supports conferences, working groups of scholars and the creation of Afro...