Harvard to Endow Chair in Gay Studies

[Shana A]

Harvard to Endow Chair in Gay Studies

By JACQUES STEINBERG
Published: June 3, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/education/04harvard.html

Harvard University will endow a visiting professorship in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies, a position that, it believes, will be the first endowed, named chair in the subject at an American college.

The visiting professorship was made possible by a gift of $1.5 million from the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus, which will formally announce it at a dinner on Thursday, after Harvard's commencement exercises. With the gift, Harvard said it would regularly invite "eminent scholars studying issues related to sexuality or sexual minorities" to teach on campus for one semester, according to a draft of a university press release.