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Lecture Video Segment 1: Introduction of Professor
Griffin
Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, introduces Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin. Farah Jasmine Griffin '85, is a professor of English and comparative literature and of African American studies at Columbia University. She has written extensively in the fields of African American literature, music, history, and politics. Griffin earned her Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University. Drew Gilpin Faust is the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which takes its place alongside Harvard's nine other schools and faculties. Prior to joining the Institute in January 2001, Faust was the Annenberg Professor of History and the director of Women's Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A leading historian of the Civil War and the American South, Faust is the author of five books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1997), for which she won the prestigious Francis Parkman Prize. The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is a scholarly community where individuals pursue advanced work across a wide range of academic disciplines, professions, and creative arts. Within this broad purpose, the Radcliffe Institute sustains a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society. The Dean's Lecture Series brings distinguished leaders in the humanities and the sciences, the arts, and the professions to speak at the Institute.
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