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Michael Dawson, former director of the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, has accepted an appointment as the professor of government and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University.

The appointment, effective in July, comes in the midst of discontent reported between Harvard’s Afro-American Studies Department and university President Lawrence Summers.
“I very much look forward to joining one of the premier research centers in Afro-American studies,” said Dawson, who earned his doctorate at Harvard in 1986.

The previous week, K. Anthony Appiah, a Black studies professor at Harvard, resigned to move to Princeton, citing personal reasons.

“I have a wonderful job as professor of Afro-American studies and of philosophy at Harvard. I have the most cordial relations with my colleagues in the faculty and the administration”, Appiah told reporters.