{"id":25064,"date":"2023-04-28T10:52:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T14:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=25064"},"modified":"2023-04-28T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T15:42:35","slug":"tomiko-brown-nagin-92-will-address-class-of-2023-at-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/tomiko-brown-nagin-92-will-address-class-of-2023-at-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomiko Brown-Nagin \u201992 will address Class of 2023 at Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomiko Brown-Nagin \u201992, a leading historian on law and society and dean of Harvard University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radcliffe.harvard.edu\/\">Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study<\/a>, will be the featured speaker during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/commencement\/\">Furman\u2019s Commencement<\/a> on May 6.<\/p>\n<p>An award-winning legal historian and an expert in constitutional law and education law and policy, Brown-Nagin is also the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and a professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>She has published articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics, including the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s equal protection jurisprudence, civil rights law and history, the Affordable Care Act and education reform.<\/p>\n<p>Brown-Nagin\u2019s latest book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/20\/both-sides-now\/\">Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality<\/a>,\u201d explores the life and times of the pathbreaking lawyer, politician and judge. Her previous book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/12\/11\/more-awards-for-tomiko-brown-nagin-2\/\">Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement<\/a>,\u201d was published in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>As chair of the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, she co-authored a report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/02\/here-is-a-hard-historical-truth-slavery-powerfully-shaped-harvard\/\">detailing the university\u2019s direct, financial and intellectual ties to slavery<\/a>. Harvard subsequently committed $100 million to redress harms to descendant communities in the United States and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>Brown-Nagin, who grew up in Greenwood, South Carolina, was a Truman scholar at Furman as well as a member of Senior Order and Students for Diversity. After graduating summa cum laude from Furman in 1992 with a degree in history, she earned a juris doctorate at Yale Law School in 1997 and a Ph.D. in history at Duke University in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The Commencement ceremony for the Class of 2023 is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. on May 6 after the traditional procession of students from Furman Mall to Paladin Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/commencement\/\">For more information on the events of Commencement Weekend, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An award-winning legal historian and an expert in constitutional law and education law and policy, Brown-Nagin is the dean of Harvard University\u2019s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":25066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42,30],"tags":[2043,858],"class_list":["post-25064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-history","category-top-stories","tag-class-of-2023","tag-commencement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}