Melissa Harris-Perry — who hosts thethe MSNBC weekend show “Melissa Harris-Perry” and taught at Princeton from 2006 until 2010 — is now switching academic homes once again, this time to her alma mater.
Harris-Perry will leave herposition as a political science professor at Tulane University in order to become a presidential chair in the politics and international affairs department at Wake Forest University. Shegraduated from Wake Forest in 1994.
Harris-Perrytaught at the University where she was an associate professor, but left when she was denied a promotion to a full professorship.
Prior to her position at Tulane, Harris-Perry was an associate professor at the University from 2006 until 2010, but she left after being denied a full professorship promotion by the Center for African American Studies.
“That was a very clear statement to me that my colleagues did not value my intellectual contributions,” she toldThe Daily Princetonian at the time.