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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Alphonse Fletcher University Professor

Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research

Hutchins Center Executive Committee

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

Lawrence D. Bobo

Dean of Social Science and W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences

Hutchins Center Executive Committee, ex officio; Founding Editor, Du Bois Review

W. E. B. Du Bois Medalist, 2005

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Department Chair and 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

William Julius Wilson

Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor

Hutchins Center Executive Committee

Director, Project on Race, Class & Cumulative Adversity

Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn

Bennett Ashley

Carol Biondi

Frank Biondi

Catherine Buttenwieser

Paul Buttenwieser

Kenneth I. Chenault

Richard D. Cohen

Vice Chair, National Advisory Board
Chairman, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art
W. E. B. Du Bois Medalist, 2013 and 2015

Virgis W. Colbert

Ethelbert Cooper

W. E. B. Du Bois Medalist, 2015

Steve Cousins

Suhrid Gajendragadkar

Nancy Garvey

Arjun Gupta

Jeremy Henderson

Ben Horowitz

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 a co-founder of Silver Lake.

Lewis P. Jones III

Mitch Kapor

Freada Kapor Klein

Joanna Lipper

Christina Weiss Lurie

Kay M. Madati

James M. Manyika

Catherine C. Marron

Demond Martin

Henry W. McGee III

Raymond J. McGuire

Clare Muñana

Donald E. Newhouse

W. E. B. Du Bois Medalist, 2000 & 2008

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Alphonse Fletcher University Professor
Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
Hutchins Center Executive Committee

gates@harvard.edu

p: 617.495.8508 Fax:617.495.9590

Abby Wolf

Executive Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research

wolf@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.496.9438

Dominique Bocanegra

Program Coordinator, Hiphop Archive & Research Institute

dominique_bocanegra@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-8885

Vincent Brown

Director, History Design Studio

brown8@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.496.6155

Sara Bruya

Interim Managing Editor, Du Bois Review

dbreview@fas.harvard.edu

Kevin M. Burke

Director of Research

kevinburke@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.8508

Sheldon Cheek

Assistant Director, Image of the Black Archive & Library

scheek@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.1875

Karen C. Dalton

Director, Image of the Black Archive & Library

kcdalton@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.1875

Alejandro de la Fuente

Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute

delafuente@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.496.0681

Velma DuPont

Office Manager

velmadupont@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.8508

Amy Gosdanian

Executive Assistant to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

gosdan@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.8508 Fax:617.495.9590

Bronia Greskovicova-Chang

Program Coordinator, Afro-Latin American Research Institute

bgreskovicovachang@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.384.8346

Dell M. Hamilton

Image and Publications Rights Coordinator

dhamilt@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.496.8046

Evelynn M. Hammonds

Director, Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine
Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African-American studies

evelynn_hammonds@harvard.edu

p: 617.495.1560

Gabriella Jones-Monserrate

Program Director, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art

gjonesmonserrate@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.496.5777

Tanya Larkin

Interim Managing Editor, Transition Magazine

transition@fas.harvard.edu

Shawn Lee

Associate Director

shawnlee@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.496.1315

Krishna Lewis

Fellows Program Director

krishna_lewis@harvard.edu

p: 617.496.8881

Sandra Mancebo

Finance Associate

smancebo@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.496.8824

Ingrid Monson

Quincy Jones Professor of Africa American Music
Director, The Jazz Research Initiative

imonson@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.496.8081

Marcyliena Morgan

Director, Hiphop Archive & Research Institute
Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences
W. E. B. Du Bois Medalist, 2005

mmorgan@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-8885

Steven J. Niven

Executive Editor: Dictionary of African Biography, African American National Biography, Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography

sjniven@fas.harvard.edu

p: 585.730.0387

Justin Sneyd

Events Coordinator

justinsneyd@fas.harvard.edu

Matt Weinberg

Events Coordinator

mweinberg@fas.harvard.edu

Tom Wolejko

Media and Technology Coordinator

twolejko@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.4852

David Bindman

Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University College London

2020-2021: Image of the Black Archive & Library Fellow

Darius Bost

Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Utah

Fall 2020: Richard D. Cohen Fellow

Alessandra Di Maio

Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities, University of Palermo

Spring 2020: Richard D. Cohen Fellow

Eve Dunbar

Associate Professor of English at Vassar College

Fall 2020: W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow

Belinda Edmondson

Professor of English and African American and African Studies, Rutgers University

Fall 2020: Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow

Garrett Felber

Assistant Professor of History, University of Mississippi

2020-2021: Hutchins Fellow

C. Keith Harrison

Associate Unit Head and Chief Academic Officer, University of Central Florida

Fall 2020: Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow

Scott Heath

Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Loyola University

Spring 2021: Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow

Jessica Marie Johnson

Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University

Spring 2021: Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow

Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz

Tanner-Opperman Chair of African Art History in Honor of Roy Sieber, Indiana University

2020-2021: Mark Claster Mamolen Fellow

Martha H. Patterson

Professor of English, McKendree University

2020-2021: Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow

William Henry Pruitt III

Doctoral Candidate in the Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

2020-2021: Dorothy Porter & Charles Harris Wesley Fellow

Bill Schwarz

Professor of Modern Literature and History in the School of English and Drama, University of London

Fall 2020: Stuart Hall Fellow

Jesse Weaver Shipley

John D. Willard Professor of African and African American Studies and Oratory, Dartmouth College

2020-2021: Genevieve McMillan-Reba Stewart Fellow

Justin Steil

Associate Professor of Law and Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2020-2021: W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

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