News
Progressive Labor Party Organizes Solidarity March With Harvard Yard Encampment
News
Encampment Protesters Briefly Raise 3 Palestinian Flags Over Harvard Yard
News
Mayor Wu Cancels Harvard Event After Affinity Groups Withdraw Over Emerson Encampment Police Response
News
Harvard Yard To Remain Indefinitely Closed Amid Encampment
News
HUPD Chief Says Harvard Yard Encampment is Peaceful, Defends Students’ Right to Protest
Lincoln Gordon, former professor at the Business School and Ambassador to Brazil, has been appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. He will replace jack Hood Vaughn, the new director of the Peace Corps.
Gordon has been participating in a seminar this week on economic development and democracy at the Center for International Affairs. He was attending the seminar when the State Department called to notify him of his appointment.
Gordon taught at the Business School from 1946 to 1950, and again from 1955 to 1961 as William Ziegler Professor of International Economic Relations. He was one of the founders of the Center for International Affairs.
Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.