Claudine Gay was named dean of social science at Harvard University, effective July 1. She is a professor of government and a professor of African and African American studies at the university. Dr. Gay has been on the Harvard faculty since 2006.
Before joining the faculty at Harvard, Dr. Gay served on the faculty at Stanford University. Professor Gay is the co-editor of Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Professor Gay is a graduate of Stanford University in California, where she majored in economics. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.
