September 12, 2003

A Chairman Is Ousted at Indiana U.; Prize-Winning Writer Won't Be Teaching at Emory

By DAVID GLENN and ROBIN WILSON

MAKING WAVES: "I know it's a lot of hard work, but it's also going to be some fun." So proclaimed John H. Stanfield II in the summer of 2002, just after he was hired away from Morehouse College to serve as chairman of Indiana University's department of African-American and African-diaspora studies, one of the country's most venerable black-studies programs. One year later, however, "fun" is not the first word on people's lips when discussing the department. "John Stanfield has had a year of