#  Our Leadership 

 



##  Our Leadership 

 



  [### Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

 ](https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/henry-louis-gates-jr) <gates@harvard.edu>Alphonse Fletcher University Professor

Director, Hutchins Center for African &amp; African American Research

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

 

 

 

      ![Henry Louis Gates, Jr.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/henry-louis-gates_0.jpg?itok=PKSKRZkj) 

 

 

 

   [### Abby Wolf

 ](/people/abby-wolf) <wolf@fas.harvard.edu>Executive Director, Hutchins Center for African &amp; African American Research

 

 

 

      ![Abby Wolf](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hutchins/files/abby.jpg?itok=tfSuhmEH) 

 

 

 

   [### Emmanuel Akyeampong

 ](http://scholar.harvard.edu/eakyeampong)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 

 

 

 

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   [### Sidney Chalhoub

 ](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/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

 

 

 

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   [### Alejandro de la Fuente

 ](https://alari.fas.harvard.edu/directory/facultycommittee/) <delafuente@fas.harvard.edu>Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute

Hutchins Center Executive Committee

 

 

 

      ![Alejandro de la Fuente](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hutchins/files/de_la_fuente_2011_1.jpg?itok=NzaBfpnv) 

 

 

 

   [### Caroline Elkins

 ](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/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

 

 

 

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   [### Cécile Fromont

 ](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/c%C3%A9cile-fromont)Faculty Director, Alain Locke Gallery of African &amp; African American Art

Professor of History of Art and Architecture

Hutchins Center Executive Committee

 

 

 

      ![Cécile Fromont](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-12/thumbnail_Stephanie%20Mitchell%20-%20Harvard%20University%20091225_Cecile_Fromont_12.jpg?itok=rJNr0HvG) 

 

 

 

   [### Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

 ](https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/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

 

 

 

      ![EBH](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hutchins/files/evelyn_2.jpg?itok=60yqmmaF) 

 

 

 

   [### Glenn H. Hutchins

 ](/people/glenn-h-hutchins)Chair, National Advisory Board

Hutchins Center Executive Committee, ex officio

W. E. B. Du Bois Medalist, 2006

 

 

 Glenn Hutchins is chairman of North Island and North Island Ventures, and co-founder of Silver Lake. He is on the board of directors of AT&amp;T and Banco Santander, co-chairman of the Brookings Institution, chair of CARE, vice chair of the Obama Foundation... 

 

 

      ![Glenn H. Hutchins](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hutchins/files/glenn_hutchins_cropped.jpeg?itok=e3gmwU3J) 

 

 

 

   [### Jacob Olupona

 ](https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/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

 

 

 

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   [### Tommie Shelby

 ](https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/tommie-shelby)Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy

Hutchins Center Executive Committee

 

 

 

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