<p>Here’s an announcement about an exciting new faculty appointment</p>
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High-Profile Black Political Scientist to Lead New Center on Race, Gender and Politics in the South: Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry, the witty Black political scientist who has developed a loyal following as a television pundit on MSNBC and a columnist for The Nation, has decided to leave her teaching post at Princeton University to join the faculty at Tulane University, where she will head up a new center focused on race, gender and politics in the South.</p>
<p>The 37-year-old Harris-Perry held a joint appointment in Princeton’s political science and African-American studies departments and will begin at Tulane in the fall. Her chief responsibility will be to develop a center to critically examine the role of progressive politics and the intersection of race, religion and gender in the South.
<a href=“http://diversityteam.blogspot.com/2011/01/high-profile-black-political-scientist.html[/url] ”>http://diversityteam.blogspot.com/2011/01/high-profile-black-political-scientist.html</a></p> ;
<p>In another article I read, it said she would also be involved at the Newcomb Institute.</p>
<p>good for tulane.</p>
<p>dr. harris-perry sounds like she will be a wonderful addition to tulane’s faculty.</p>
<p>be well</p>
<p>dad of daughters</p>
jym626
January 24, 2011, 7:13pm
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<p>jym - OK, that article about the rapper at Rice is just…bizarre. Interesting, but bizarre. I would be really curious how this even came to be.</p>
jym626
January 24, 2011, 7:53pm
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<p>Agreed, fc. I forgot to ask my older S about it when we saw him last night, so I have emailed him for his perspective. There is a thread about this in the Rice forum. It is for real.</p>
jym626
January 24, 2011, 8:04pm
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<p>OK, that makes WAYYY more sense now. Whew! I thought Rice had really gone off the tracks there!</p>