People

Director

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy, DuPont, and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, cultural critic...

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Leadership

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
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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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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
Faculty Director, Alain Locke Gallery of African & African American Art
Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Hutchins Center Executive Committee
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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

Glenn H. Hutchins
Chair, National Advisory Board
Hutchins Center Executive Committee, ex officio
W. E. B. Du Bois Medalist, 2006
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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
Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy
Hutchins Center Executive Committee
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Faculty & Staff

Cécile Fromont
Faculty Director, Alain Locke Gallery of African & African American Art
Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Hutchins Center Executive Committee

Current Fellows

National Advisory Board