Marvin Thrash v. Miami University

GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.

In this civil rights case, plaintiff Dr. Marvin Thrash, an African-American former faculty member at Miami University (the University), appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to defendants, the University and Dr. Shashi Lalvani, the chair of the academic department in which Dr. Thrash worked. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

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In 2004, a search committee conducted a search to fill a single, open tenure-track position in the University’s Department of Paper Science and Engineering (the Department). The committee’s list of finalists for the…