Institute for Advanced Study Hires First Black Member to Its Permanent Faculty; Shulman to Leave Carnegie Foundation; a Computer Scientist Leaves Princeton for Ga. Tech

HISTORIC FIRST: Danielle S. Allen, dean of humanities and a professor of classical languages and literature at the University of Chicago, will be the first African-American to join the permanent faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, N.J.

"The chance to focus on my own work was one I couldn't pass up," Ms. Allen says, adding that she will continue to advise dissertation students at the University of Chicago. Ms. Allen, 35, holds two doctoral degrees, earned tenure

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