The chair of that committee is the distinguished black historian Nathan Huggins, who has recently taken the helm in Afro Studies at Harvard. I’m just six years past my PhD and they’re offering a joint appointment as full professor of economics and of Afro-American Studies. The appointment would make me the first black tenured professor in the history of Harvard’s economics department. In the past, the timing hadn’t quite felt right for Harvard. And here is my earlier Conversation with Glenn Loury.

Source: New York Times December 23, 2023 14:42 UTC