# Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ![Henry Louis Gates, Jr.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hutchins/files/hgates.jpg?itok=arrfCR1R) **Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.** An Emmy, Du Pont, and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, and institution builder, he has published numerous books and produced and hosted an array of documentary films about Black History, including, most recently, *Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History* (PBS, 2026).Gates’s groundbreaking genealogy and genetics series, *Finding Your Roots,* which received a Primetime Emmy nomination, is now in its twelfth season on PBS. His latest book, *The Black Box: Writing the Race* (Penguin Random House, 2024), was named one of the *New York Times* 100 Best Books of the Year. Gates is a recipient of numerous honorary degrees, including most recently, one from his graduate alma mater, the University of Cambridge, and The London School of Economics. Gates was a member of the first class awarded “genius grants” by the MacArthur Foundation in 1981, and in 1998 he became the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal, conferred by President William Jefferson Clinton. In 2001 he discovered the first novel written by a Black female author, *The Bondwoman’s Narrative,* by Hannah Craft*,* the holograph manuscript of which he donated to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book Library. A native of Piedmont, West Virginia, Gates earned his B.A. in History, summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1973, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Clare College, Cambridge, in 1979, where he is an Honorary Fellow. A former chair of the Pulitzer Prize board, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and serves on a wide array of boards, including the New York Public Library, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Aspen Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of America, and The Studio Museum of Harlem. In 2011, his portrait, by Yuqi Wang, was hung in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. In 2023, his portrait, by Kerry James Marshall, was hung at the Fitzwilliam Museum at The University of Cambridge. He was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society in his junior year. In July 2024, he was awarded the prestigious Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. In December 2024, he was awarded The Barry Prize and was elected an Honorary Fellow by the Royal Academy of Arts in England. In February 2025, he was awarded the Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Literary Scholarship. Gates is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. ## Books Download 33 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=show_more&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_institutes%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_poi123%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=163959&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_resourceslinksfaq%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=172537&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=show_more&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_institutes%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_poi123%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=163959&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_resourceslinksfaq%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=172537&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=show_more&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_institutes%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_poi123%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=163959&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_resourceslinksfaq%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=172537&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=show_more&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_institutes%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_poi123%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=163959&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_resourceslinksfaq%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=172537&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=show_more&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_institutes%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_poi123%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=163959&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_resourceslinksfaq%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=172537&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=show_more&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_institutes%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_poi123%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=163959&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_resourceslinksfaq%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=172537&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=show_more&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_institutes%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_poi123%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=163959&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_resourceslinksfaq%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=172537&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=ris) ### 2024 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2024. *[The Black Box: Writing the Race](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678843/the-black-box-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/)*. Penguin Random House. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2024. *[The Black Box: Writing the Race](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678843/the-black-box-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/)*. Penguin Random House. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country’s history. ### 2021 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2021. *[The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624481/the-black-church-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/)*. Penguin Books. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2021. *[The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624481/the-black-church-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/)*. Penguin Books. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract From the *New York Times* bestselling author of *Stony the Road* and *The Black Box*, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in... ### 2019 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2019. *[Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/575769/stony-the-road-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/)*. Penguin Books. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2019. *[Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/575769/stony-the-road-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/)*. Penguin Books. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked “a new birth of freedom... Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Tonya Bolden. 2019. *[Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow](https://shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/books/dark-sky-rising-9781338713657.html)*. Scholastic. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Tonya Bolden. 2019. *[Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow](https://shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/books/dark-sky-rising-9781338713657.html)*. Scholastic. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the... ### 2017 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2017. *[100 Amazing Facts about the Negro](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/228459/100-amazing-facts-about-the-negro-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/9780307908711/)*. Pantheon. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2017. *[100 Amazing Facts about the Negro](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/228459/100-amazing-facts-about-the-negro-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/9780307908711/)*. Pantheon. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary *100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof,* published in 1934, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’” Rogers’s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and... ### 2016 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2016. *[Finding Your Roots, Season 2: The Official Companion to the PBS Series](https://uncpress.org/book/9781469626185/finding-your-roots-season-2/)*. University of North Carolina Press. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2016. *[Finding Your Roots, Season 2: The Official Companion to the PBS Series](https://uncpress.org/book/9781469626185/finding-your-roots-season-2/)*. University of North Carolina Press. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract In the second season, Gates's investigation takes on the personal and genealogical histories of more than twenty luminaries, including Ken Burns, Stephen King, Derek Jeter, Governor Deval Patrick, Valerie Jarrett, and Sally Field. 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Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes). Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2026. *[Finding Your Roots, Season 12](/publication/finding-your-roots-season-12)*. Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes). - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for its 12th season on PBS. Over the course of ten new episodes, Gates and his team use genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis to trace the family trees of twenty compelling guests... Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2026. *[Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History](/publication/black-and-jewish-america-interwoven-history)*. Writer, host, and executive producer. Television documentary, PBS (four, one-hour episodes). Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2026. *[Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History](/publication/black-and-jewish-america-interwoven-history)*. Writer, host, and executive producer. Television documentary, PBS (four, one-hour episodes). - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History is a four-part series tracing the rich, complex relationship between Black and Jewish Americans — defined by solidarity and strained by division. Drawn together by racism and antisemitism, they forged civic... ### 2025 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2025. *[Finding Your Roots, Season 11](/publications/finding-your-roots-season-11)*. Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes). Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2025. *[Finding Your Roots, Season 11](/publications/finding-your-roots-season-11)*. Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes). - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for its eleventh season on PBS. Over the course of 10 new episodes, Gates and his team use genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis to trace the family trees of twenty compelling... ### 2024 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2024. *[GOSPEL](/publications/gospel)*. Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (four, one-hour episodes). Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2024. *[GOSPEL](/publications/gospel)*. Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (four, one-hour episodes). - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract From acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Gospel explores Black spirituality in sermon and song. From the blues to hip-hop, African Americans have been the driving force of sonic innovation for over a century. While musical styles come and go, there... Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2024. *[Finding Your Roots, Season 10](/publications/finding-your-roots-season-19)*. Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes). Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2024. *[Finding Your Roots, Season 10](/publications/finding-your-roots-season-19)*. Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes). - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season of FINDING YOUR ROOTS. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides twenty-one compelling guests-including three of his loyal viewers--deep into their... ### 2023 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2023. *[Finding Your Roots, Season 9](/publications/finding-your-roots-season-9)*. Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes). Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2023. *[Finding Your Roots, Season 9](/publications/finding-your-roots-season-9)*. Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes). - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season of FINDING YOUR ROOTS. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides twenty-one influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing... 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Harvard University Press. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., David Bindman, and Suzanne Preston Blier, eds. 2026. *[The Image of the European in African Art](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674300316)*. Harvard University Press. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract *The Image of the European in African Art*—a companion to The Image of the Black in Western Art series—is profusely illustrated, including many little-known works, ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day. This is the richest and most... ### 2025 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Martha H. Patterson, eds. 2025. *[The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887–1937](https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691268583/the-new-negro)*. Princeton University Press. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Martha H. Patterson, eds. 2025. *[The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887–1937](https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691268583/the-new-negro)*. Princeton University Press. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racism ### 2024 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., David Bindman, and Alejandro Fuente, eds. 2024. *[The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art, Book 2: The Modern World](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674248878)*. Harvard University Press. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., David Bindman, and Alejandro Fuente, eds. 2024. *[The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art, Book 2: The Modern World](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674248878)*. Harvard University Press. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract *The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art* is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation of people of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, some twelve million of whom were forcibly imported into the Americas... ### 2023 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., David Bindman, and Alejandro Fuente, eds. 2023. *[The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art, Book 1: From Colony to Nation](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674248861)*. Harvard University Press. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., David Bindman, and Alejandro Fuente, eds. 2023. *[The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art, Book 1: From Colony to Nation](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674248861)*. Harvard University Press. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract *The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art* is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation of people of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, some twelve million of whom were forcibly imported into the Americas... ### 2022 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew Curran, eds. 2022. *[Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674244269)*. Harvard University Press. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew Curran, eds. 2022. *[Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674244269)*. Harvard University Press. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract The first translation and publication of sixteen submissions to the notorious eighteenth-century Bordeaux essay contest on the cause of black skin―an indispensable chronicle of the rise of scientifically based, anti-Black racism. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Genevieve West, eds. 2022. *[You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston](https://www.harpercollins.com/products/you-dont-know-us-negroes-and-other-essays-zora-neale-hurstonhenry-louis-gatesgenevieve-west?variant=40352561201186)*. Amistad. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Genevieve West, eds. 2022. *[You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston](https://www.harpercollins.com/products/you-dont-know-us-negroes-and-other-essays-zora-neale-hurstonhenry-louis-gatesgenevieve-west?variant=40352561201186)*. Amistad. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract *You Don’t Know Us Negroes* is the quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world’s most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Spanning more than three decades and penned during the backdrop of the birth of the Harlem Renaissance... Show morerefresh ## News [### Oxford University awards honorary degrees at its annual Encaenia ceremony ](https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-06-23-oxford-university-awards-honorary-degrees-at-its-annual-encaenia-ceremony) June 24, 2026 ![Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in a graduation cap and gown at Oxford University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/hlgoxforddegree.jpg?h=c651ae69&itok=9yMMnnvP) [### The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Announces its Fourteenth Class of W.E.B. 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