Willard Johnson on climbing the faculty ranks at MIT (2015)

Willard R. Johnson is MIT Professor of Political Science Emeritus. He is the Institute's earliest black faculty member, having joined the MIT Department of Political Science in 1964.

Timeline: 2010s

School: School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Department: Political Science

Career: Arts & HumanitiesCommunityEducation

Object: Video

Collection: Faculty, Rising Voices 1995-Present, Willard R. Johnson

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