Howard indicated that it will award the Toni Morrison Chair to a distinguished faculty member, who is recognized as a national and international leader in his or her field of scholarship or creative work
In addition, the holder of the Toni Morrison Chair in Arts and Humanities will be expected to work with other Howard faculty to oversee the development of an . The laboratory will be tasked with bringing to bear various academic disciplines on the major social issues facing the nation and preparing future alums for leadership roles in an increasingly diverse America.
Born in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, Toni Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a BA in English. She then earned her Master's’ degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. and the Pulitzer Prize for. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 2012.
Morrison began a teaching career after finishing her graduate degree. She first taught English at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas before returning to Howard to to teach in its Department of English for several years. Later in her life she joined the faculty at Princeton University, where from 1989 until her retirement in 2006, she held the Chair in the Humanities. At Princeton, she began the Princeton Atelier, a program that fosters collaboration between students and writers and other performing artists. She later returned to Princeton to lead a seminar entitled “The Foreigner’s Home” in 2008. In 2017, Princeton dedicated Morrison Hall in her honor.
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