Claudine Gay

Extracted Attributes

• Honors

  Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Toppan Prize (1998); Anna Laura Myers Prize

• Full Name

  Claudine Gay

• Nationality

  United States

• Academic Rank

  Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies

• Date of Birth

  1970-08-04

• Tenure Length

  Shortest presidency in Harvard University history (6 months)

• Place of Birth

  New York City, United States

• Presidential Order

  30th President of Harvard University

• Historical Distinction

  First person of color and second woman to serve as Harvard President

Timeline

• Born in New York City to Haitian immigrants. (Source: Wikidata)

  1970-08-04

• Earned Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University, receiving the Toppan Prize. (Source: Harvard University Biography)

  1998-01-01

• Joined Stanford University as an assistant professor of political science. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2000-01-01

• Recruited to Harvard University as a professor of government. (Source: Harvard University Biography)

  2006-01-01

• Appointed Dean of Social Science at Harvard University. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2015-01-01

• Appointed Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2018-01-01

• Announced as the successor to Harvard President Larry Bacow. (Source: ABC News)

  2022-12-15

• Officially assumed office as the 30th President of Harvard University. (Source: Harvard University Biography)

  2023-07-01

• Testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce regarding campus antisemitism. (Source: Document 28121141-2767-4e7a-8206-a64e02347ba7)

  2023-12-05

• Resigned from the presidency of Harvard University following plagiarism allegations and backlash from congressional testimony. (Source: ABC News)

  2024-01-02

Claudine Gay

Claudine Gay (born August 4, 1970) is an American political scientist who is the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University. Her research focuses on American political behavior, including voter turnout and politics of race and identity. Gay served as the dean of Social Sciences at Harvard from 2015 to 2018, as the dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 2018 to 2023, and as the 30th president of Harvard University from July 2023 to January 2024. In December 2023, Gay and two other university presidents faced pressure from the public and from a congressional committee to resign, over responses to instances of antisemitic violence on the campus. Amid this pressure campaign Gay was accused of plagiarism in academic publications, although the allegations have been sharply contested. In January 2024, she resigned from the presidency.

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• Claudine Gay - Wikipedia

  Claudine Gay (born August 4, 1970) is an American political scientist who is the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University. Her research focuses on American political behavior, including voter turnout and politics of race and identity. [...] [edit] After graduating, Gay was an assistant professor, and later tenured associate professor, in Stanford's Department of Political Science from 2000 to 2006. In the 2003–2004 academic year, she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. [...] Gay served as the dean of Social Sciences at Harvard from 2015 to 2018, as the dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 2018 to 2023, and as the 30th president of Harvard University from July 2023 to January 2024.

• [PDF] Claudine Gay Biography | Harvard University

  Latinos; and the consequences of housing mobility programs for political participation among poor people. Gay is a dedicated educator and mentor whose courses have focused on such topics as racial and ethnic politics in the U.S., Black politics in the post-Civil Rights era, American political behavior, and democratic citizenship. She is founding chair of the Inequality in America Initiative, a multidisciplinary effort launched in 2017. [...] Claudine Gay became the 30th president of Harvard University on July 1, 2023. Prior to becoming president, she spent five years leading Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences as the Edgerley Family Dean, having served previously as dean of social science from 2015 to 2018. Gay was recruited to Harvard in 2006 as a professor of government. She was also appointed as a professor of African and African American Studies in 2007. She was named the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government in 2015. [...] Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Gay was an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University from 2000 to 2005, and an associate professor (tenured) from 2005 to 2006. She earned a B.A. in economics from Stanford University, where she received the Anna Laura Myers Prize for best senior thesis in the department. She earned her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1998, receiving the Toppan Prize for best dissertation in political science.

• A timeline of Harvard President Claudine Gay's short, scandal ...

  # A timeline of Harvard President Claudine Gay's short, scandal-plagued tenure Gay announced her resignation as president on Tuesday. ByMeredith Deliso January 2, 2024, 8:17 PM Harvard University President Claudine Gay announced her resignation on Tuesday, following mounting accusations of plagiarism and backlash for her response at a congressional hearing in December to questions about antisemitism on U.S. college campuses. [...] Gay was the first person of color and second woman in Harvard University's 386-year history to serve as president. Her tenure as president is the shortest in the school's history. She will resume her faculty position at Harvard, according to the university's main governing board. Here's a look at what led up to her resignation as president. ### MORE: Harvard President Claudine Gay announces resignation amid plagiarism accusations, congressional testimony ## Dec. 15, 2022 [...] Harvard announces that Gay, the Edgerley Family dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will succeed current university President Larry Bacow, who stepped down after five years in office. ## July 1, 2023 Gay becomes the 30th president of Harvard. ## Oct. 7, 2023

• What led to Harvard president Claudine Gay's resignation? - YouTube

  Harvard president University president Claudine gay has resigned gay was one of the ivy league presidents whose muted response about calls for Israeli genocide at a congressional hearing led to demands for her ouer but after weathering that episode accusations of plagiarism were too much CBS News Congressional correspondent Nicole Killian has more six months into or 10 here Harvard University president Claudine gay announced she's resigning so that our community can navigate this moment of [...] # What led to Harvard president Claudine Gay's resignation? ## CBS News 6870000 subscribers 2743 likes ### Description 571265 views Posted: 3 Jan 2024 Harvard president Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday after six months on the job. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion breaks down the events that led to Gay's resignation. [...] University of Pennsylvania and the days after that Congressional hearing you know in her case there had also been some concerns about how she handled anti-Semitism on campus so it went beyond just her actual testimony and similarly with Claudine gay yes there were many who were concerned about her testimony expressed outrage about it although she did apologize for it at the same time you had the issues of plagiarism she also came under Fire for how she handled the University's initial response

• A “Scholar's Scholar” - Harvard Magazine

  Claudine Gay arrived in Cambridge in the fall of 1992 as a first-year graduate student, lugging the things that seemed most essential to her success: a futon, a Mac Classic II, and a cast iron skillet for frying plantains. The futon, no doubt, was standard grad-student gear. The computer pertained to her status as a nascent social scientist in an era of increasingly quantitative scholarship. And the plantains traced back to her roots, as the daughter of immigrants from Haiti. [...] the sprawling institution she leads. After a protracted recovery from a long period of financial constraint, the relief that followed the pandemic, and now a transition in Mass Hall, the community appears ready for an intellectually ambitious agenda. In Claudine Gay, Harvard would seem to have the leader for that moment. [...] That was then: a 1998 Harvard Magazine Commencement photograph captured, but did not identify, newly minted Ph.D.s Chris Afendulis (facing camera) and Claudine Gay (face turned), who were then working as consultants. A quarter-century later, firmly embedded in academia, the couple could no longer maintain their anonymity on campus. Photograph by Jim Harrison

• Award

  Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

• Image

  

• Gender

  female

• Educated At

  Harvard University

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  university teacher

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  8/4/1970

• Place Of Birth

  New York City