Berkeley Makes Bid for Harvard's Shelby

The Department of Philosophy and the Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program (JSP) in the Law School at the University of California, Berkeley have made a joint, tenured offer to Tommie Shelby (African American Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy), who is presently Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University (though his PhD is in philosophy from Pittsburgh).  (In addition, the JSP Program at Berkeley has hired, jointly with Political Science, Kinch Hoekstra [history of political and moral philosophy, Hobbes], who has been a Tutor and Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford University for a number of years.  This is a tenure-track appointment.)