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Claudine Gay
File:Claudine Gay 2022.jpg
30th President of Harvard University
Designate
Assuming office
July 1, 2023
SucceedingLawrence Bacow
Personal details
Born54–55[1]
Bronx, New York, United States
EducationPhillips Exeter Academy
Stanford University
Harvard University

Claudine Gay is a political scientist and university administrator. She serves as Harvard's Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies, and Edgerley Family Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She is vice president of the Midwest Political Science Association.

Gay's research addresses American political behavior, including voter turnout and politics of race and identity.

On December 15, 2022, Harvard announced that Gay had been selected as the 30th president of Harvard University, with her term beginning on July 1, 2023.[2] She will be Harvard’s first black president.[3]

Early life and education

Gay grew up the child of Haitian immigrants to the United States; her parents met in New York as students (her mother studying nursing and her father engineering.)[4] Gay is a cousin of writer Roxane Gay.[4]

Gay spent much of her childhood first in New York, then in Saudi Arabia where her father worked for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.[5] Her mother was a registered nurse.[5] Gay attended Phillips Exeter Academy,[6] then studied economics at Stanford University, receiving the Anna Laura Myers Prize for best undergraduate thesis in economics.[5] She graduated in 1992.[5] Gay then earned her Ph.D. (1998) from Harvard, winning the university's Toppan Prize for best dissertation in political science.[7]

Career

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Gay in 2022

Gay served as assistant professor, then associate professor in Stanford's Department of Political Science from 2000 to 2006.[5] In the 2003-2004 academic year, Gay was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.[5] She subsequently moved to Harvard University and in July 2015, she became Dean of Social Science at Harvard University.[8] In July 2018, she was named the Edgerley Family Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to assume the post August 15.[5]

Gay's research addresses American political behavior, politics of race and identity,[7] and voter turnout,[9] among other topics.

She is vice president of the Midwest Political Science Association.[10]

In 2018-19, Gay convened a review panel[11] which decided to suspend economics professor Roland Fryer for allegedly engaging in sexually inappropriate behavior with one of his assistants and at least four other employees.[12][13]

Since 2017, Gay has also served as a trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy.[6]

On December 15, 2022, Gay was elected the 30th president of Harvard University, effective July 1, 2023.

Works

  • 1998, with Katherine Tate. “Doubly Bound: The Impact of Gender and Race on the Politics of Black Women”. Political Psychology 19 (1).
  • 2001. “The Effect of Black Congressional Representation on Political Participation”. American Political Science Review 95 (3).
  • 2001. The Effect of Minority Districts and Minority Representation on Political Participation in California. San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California.
  • 2002. “Spirals of Trust? The Effect of Descriptive Representation on the Relationship Between Citizens and Their Government”. American Journal of Political Science 46 (4).
  • 2004. “Putting Race in Context: Identifying the Environmental Determinants of Black Racial Attitudes”. American Political Science Review 98 (4).
  • 2006. “Seeing Difference: The Effect of Economic Disparity on Black Attitudes Toward Latinos”. American Journal of Political Science 50 (4) : 997.
  • 2007. “Legislating Without Constraints: The Effect of Minority Districting on Legislators' Responsiveness to Constituency Preferences”. The Journal of Politics 69 (2) : 456.
  • 2012. “Moving to Opportunity: The Political Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment”. Urban Affairs Review 48 (2) : 147-179.
  • 2013, ed. with Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, Jennifer Hochschild, Michael Jones-Correa. Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation (Oxford University Press, 2013).
  • 2014. “Knowledge Matters: Policy Cross-pressures and Black Partisanship”. Political Behavior 36 : 99-124.

References

  1. ^ Saul, Stephanie; Patel, Vimal (2022-12-15). "Harvard Names a New President, an Insider and Historic First". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  2. ^ "Harvard names Claudine Gay 30th president". Harvard Gazette. 2022-12-15. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  3. ^ "Claudine Gay: Harvard University picks first black president". December 15, 2022 – via www.bbc.com.
  4. ^ a b ZamaMdoda (25 July 2018). "Meet the Haitian-American woman who's Harvard's new Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science | AFROPUNK". Afropunk. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g "Claudine Gay named Harvard FAS dean". Harvard Gazette. 2018-07-23. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  6. ^ a b "Meet Our Trustees | Phillips Exeter Academy". www.exeter.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
  7. ^ a b Reuell, Peter (2015-04-28). "Claudine Gay named dean of social science". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
  8. ^ "Claudine Gay Appointed Dean of Social Science at Harvard University". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. 2015-05-12. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
  9. ^ Thernstrom, Abigail (April 6, 2010). "Redistricting, Race, and the Voting Rights Act". AEI. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
  10. ^ Connley, Courtney (June 5, 2015). "Educator Claudine Gay Named Harvard's New Dean of Social Science". Black Enterprise. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  11. ^ "Harvard economic professor Roland Fryer suspended after allegations of sexual harassment". CNN. 11 July 2019.
  12. ^ "Harvard Closes Fryer's Research Lab as Sanctions Take Effect | News | the Harvard Crimson".
  13. ^ Casselman, Ben; Tankersley, Jim (10 July 2019). "Harvard Suspends Roland Fryer, Star Economist, After Sexual Harassment Claims". The New York Times.
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