21 Facts About Claudine Gay

From July 1,2023, until January 2,2024, Claudine Gay was the 30th president of Harvard University.

Claudine Gay became the first Black president of Harvard after having served as the dean of Social Sciences and the dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Claudine Gay was accused of having insufficient citation in some of her past works, partly by the same committee.

Claudine Gay was born in The Bronx on August 4,1970 and grew up in New York City with her older brother, Sony Claudine Gay Jr.

Claudine Gay spent her childhood in New York, abroad in Saudi Arabia, while her father, Sony Claudine Gay Sr.

Claudine Gay attended Phillips Exeter Academy, a private boarding school in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Claudine Gay transferred to Stanford University, to study economics, graduating in 1992.

Claudine Gay received the Anna Laura Myers Prize for an outstanding thesis in economics.

Claudine Gay won the university's Toppan Prize for the best dissertation in political science.

Claudine Gay was recruited by Harvard to be a professor of government in 2006, and was appointed professor of African American studies in 2007.

In 2015, Gay was named the dean of social sciences at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Wilbur A Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies.

Claudine Gay removed emeritus status from retired professors Jorge I Dominguez and Gary Urton, and placed professors John Comaroff and Roland G Fryer Jr.

Claudine Gay called Sullivan's response to the controversy "insufficient," citing his "special responsibility" as house dean for the well-being of Winthrop residents.

In 2019, Claudine Gay said that Harvard would seek to hire multiple ethnic studies professors, hiring three in 2022.

In early 2021, Claudine Gay announced that the cost of the FAS's core academic commitments were greater than its revenues and began processes to reduce expenses.

On December 15,2022, Harvard announced that Claudine Gay had been selected as the 30th president of Harvard University.

Claudine Gay took office on July 1,2023, becoming the university's first Black president.

The executive committee of Harvard's Alumni Association stated it "unanimously and unequivocally" supported Claudine Gay's leadership, praising her "for protecting academic freedom and the right of all students to voice their opinions".

Claudine Gay requested seven corrections to add citations and quotation marks to her dissertation and two of her articles.

On January 2,2024, Claudine Gay announced she was resigning her position.

Claudine Gay is married to Christopher Afendulis, an information systems analyst at Stanford's Department of Health Research and Policy.