Preston Williams (1926-) Location: 1st Floor, Braun Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School Unveiling Date: August 2011 Preston Williams served as Houghton Research Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change and was acting dean of Harvard Divinity School from 1974 to 1975. He was also the first director of Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Additionally, from 1998 to 2008, Professor Williams served as director of the Summer Leadership Institute, which trains religious leaders from urban settings.
Martin Kilson (1931-) Location: 1st-2nd Floor Stairs, Lehman Hall, Dudley House Unveiling Date: March 2012 Martin Kilson earned his PhD in political science at Harvard. Soon afterwards, he was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Government, making him the first African-American faculty member to teach at Harvard College. When he received full tenure in 1969, Professor Kilson became the first African American tenured professor at Harvard. In 1988, Professor Kilson was appointed as the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government. He has written over one hundred journal articles and co-edited several books.