Word: higginbotham
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Over the course of the next 70 years, clashesconcerning the function of race on campus haveexpanded to include scholarly debate and broadsocial activism. In the 1960s, the Afro-AmericanStudies Department was created, attracting suchluminaries as Professor of Afro-American Studiesand History Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Professorof Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. AnthonyAppiah and W.E.B. DuBois Professor of theHumanities Henry Louis Gates...
William C. Kirby, chair of the historydepartment, noted Higginbotham's longstandingcommitment to the study of history at Harvard...
While she is quick to praise Kirby for "doing awonderful job building the department--especiallyon the American side," Higginbotham said she feelsthat African-American history has been largelyneglected in the department's academic program...
...Higginbotham said she hopes to teach courses inAfrican-American history and women's issues in thedepartment, and she should be teaching historycourses by next semester...
...really honored to be part of the samedepartment as W.E.B. DuBois," she said. "I thinkhe'd be pleased."CrimsonMelissa K. CrockerHONORED: Newly appointed historyprofessor EVELYN B. HIGGINBOTHAM speaks tostudents at this weekend's Black ArtsFestival...