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Vol. 65, No. 3

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Two Appointed to Named Professorships

A nationally known expert on race, gender, and identity politics and a professor who studies contemporary art and the cultural representations of AIDS each have been appointed to named professorships at the University.

Signithia Fordham

Signithia Fordham, who holds dual appointments in the anthropology department and in the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, has assumed the title of Susan B. Anthony Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies.

Fordham’s three-year study of a public high school in Washington, D.C., chronicling the ways that black students resist conforming to the mores of a school system in exchange for academic achievement evoked debate among educators in the decade after her results were first published in 1986. The findings were detailed and expanded in her 1996 book, Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity and Success at Capital High.

Established to promote research and teaching in gender and women’s studies, the Anthony Professorship is awarded to a scholar every five years.

Douglas Crimp

Douglas Crimp, professor in the Department of Art and Art History and codirector of the Visual and Cultural Studies Program, has been named the Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History.

A theoretician of postmodernism in the visual arts, Crimp has concentrated on the politics and cultural analysis of AIDS since the late 1980s.

His 2002 book, Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, collects his critical analysis of political inaction on that topic.

The professorship is named for Fanny Knapp Allen, an amateur painter and supporter of artists in her lifetime. She donated funds for scholarships at the University, and the professorship was created in 1980 to recognize her.


 
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