Harvard professor recognized with portrait
A portrait of Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard, is now among the University-wide collection. To date, 17 portraits (including Patterson’s) have been commissioned and hung throughout the Harvard as part of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations’ Portraiture Project, which ensures recognition of the diversity of individuals who serve the University with distinction. They can include — but are not limited to — persons of African-American, Asian American, Latino American, Native American, and European-American backgrounds. The unveiling was held in the Leverett House junior common room on Wednesday. “When I left Jamaica for Harvard 47 years ago, arriving in January in the middle of a typical New England winter, my first reaction was to count the days before I could decently board a plane back home,” Patterson said during the ceremony. “Fortunately, several older colleagues and mentors urged me to think of Harvard as a glorious intellectual...