![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kelley a position because it already had a historian who did similar work. Kelley, who led the history department at New York University before moving to Columbia, says he thought he could handle working outside his discipline, but "I felt disconnected."Īlice Kessler-Harris, the chairwoman of Columbia's history department, said at first the department did not offer Mr. A prolific writer, he is conducting research for a book on Thelonious Monk. Kelley, who has worked with Columbia's Institute for Research in African-American Studies and its Center for Jazz Studies. "I'm sort of tired of being at an institution where my own department doesn't accept me," says Mr. Kelley says Columbia's history department shunned him - forcing him to take an appointment in anthropology when he joined the faculty in 2003. So why is he bailing out on the Ivy League? Kelley, the well-known African-American studies scholar, is not getting a raise or any other perks when he leaves Columbia University for the University of Southern California this summer. ![]()
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