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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

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

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

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