Executive Committee

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Alphonse Fletcher University Professor

Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research

Faculty Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute

Abby Wolf

Executive Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research

Emmanuel Akyeampong

Oppenheimer Faculty Director, Center for African Studies

Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

Hutchins Center Executive Committee; Director, Workshop on African History and Economics

Sidney Chalhoub

History Department Chair and David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

Faculty Affiliate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Hutchins Center Executive Committee

Alejandro de la Fuente

Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute

Hutchins Center Executive Committee

Caroline Elkins

Professor of History and African and African American Studies

Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, Affiliated Professor at Harvard Law School

Hutchins Center Executive Committee

Cécile Fromont

Faculty Director, Alain Locke Gallery of African & African American Art

Professor of History of Art and Architecture

Hutchins Center Executive Committee

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

Hutchins Center Executive Committee; Editor, African American National Biography

W. E. B. Du Bois Medalist, 2013

Glenn H. Hutchins

Chair, National Advisory Board

Hutchins Center Executive Committee, ex officio

W. E. B. Du Bois Medalist, 2006

Jacob Olupona

Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies

Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor of African Religious Traditions

Hutchins Center Executive Committee

Tommie Shelby

Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy

Hutchins Center Executive Committee