Haiti - Diaspora : A Haitian American Dean of FAS Harvard University
The Haitian-born American Claudine Gay, will become from August 15, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Harvard University.
Graduated in 1992 from Stanford University, where she specialized in economics, to get her PhD just after "Claudine Gay is a prominent political scientist, admired teacher and mentor, an experienced leader with a talent for collaboration and a passion for academic excellence, "said Lawrence Bacow, President of Harvard University.
Daughter of Haitian immigrants her father was a civil engineer and her mother a registered nurse. She spent much of her childhood in New York where she was born, and then in Saudi Arabia where her father worked for the US Army Corps of Engineers. She was an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford from 2000 to 2006. She has been working at FAS since 2006 as a Professor of "Government and African and African American Studies." She is also Founder of Harvard's "Inequality in America" initiative.
Guy André Junior François, the resigning Minister of Haitians Living Abroad, associates his voice with that of President Jovenel Moïse, to warmly congratulate Claudine Gay for her appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University « She represents for the Haitian Diaspora, a model to follow and a beacon for Haitian youth from all over the world. May this distinction be the light that can enlighten future generations of our compatriots !"
