The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Robert Lee Harris, Jr.

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Robert Lee Harris, Jr.

10/22/2013; 10/24/2013

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2013.287

African american history professor Robert Lee Harris, Jr. (1943 - ) taught at Cornell University for over thirty-five years, and served as the director and vice provost of Cornell University’s Africana Studies and Research Center. Harris was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 10/22/2013 and 10/24/2013, in Washington, D.C.. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 12; Total Run Time: 05h 03m 07s

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Harris, Robert L., 1943-....

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Robert L. Harris served as Africana Center director from 1986 to 1991 and was reappointed to that position in 2010. From 2000 to 2008, was Cornell's vice provost for diversity and faculty development. Key programs and initiatives established during his tenure as vice provost include the Provost's Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, resulting in the hiring of minority scholars as tenure-track faculty; an annual list of open faculty searches to aid greater collaboration across disc...