# 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... [ Bio for Henry Louis Gates, Jr. arrow\_circle\_right ](/henry-louis-gates-jr) ![Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-06/henry-louis-gates.jpg?itok=T9GD3AnM) Leadership Faculty & Staff Current Fellows National Advisory Board ## Leadership [### Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ](https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/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 ![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) Executive Director, Hutchins Center for African & 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 ![akyeampong.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hutchins/files/akyeampong.jpg?itok=YGSDVUQ0) [### 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 ![dscf2302_0_0_0_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hutchins/files/dscf2302_0_0_0_0.jpg?itok=Yiodvqi8) [### Alejandro de la Fuente ](https://alari.fas.harvard.edu/directory/facultycommittee/) 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 ![professor_caroline_elkins_photo.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hutchins/files/professor_caroline_elkins_photo.jpg?itok=OfQ8r1F9) [### Cécile Fromont ](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/c%C3%A9cile-fromont)Faculty Director, Alain Locke Gallery of African & 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 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 ![jacob_olupona_1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hutchins/files/jacob_olupona_1.jpg?itok=Vm5rYz4a) [### 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 ![2020-05_photo_of_shelby_1_0.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hutchins/files/2020-05_photo_of_shelby_1_0.jpeg?itok=rXxiGH0i) ## Faculty & Staff [### Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ](https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/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 ](/people/abby-wolf) Executive Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research [### Sara Bruya ](/people/sara-bruya) Managing Editor, Du Bois Review [### Kevin M. Burke ](/people/kevin-m-burke) Director of Research [### Kingsley Carter ](/people/kingsley-pissang) Events Coordinator [### Sheldon Cheek ](/people/sheldon-cheek) Assistant Director, Image of the Black Archive & Library [### Alejandro de la Fuente ](https://alari.fas.harvard.edu/directory/facultycommittee/) Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute Hutchins Center Executive Committee [### Velma DuPont ](/people/velma-dupont) Office Manager [### Cécile Fromont ](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/c%C3%A9cile-fromont)Faculty Director, Alain Locke Gallery of African & African American Art Professor of History of Art and Architecture Hutchins Center Executive Committee [### Jacqueline Glover ](/people/jacqueline-glover) Executive Director, Black Film Project [### Amy Gosdanian ](/people/amy-gosdanian) Executive Assistant to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. [### Bronia Greskovicova-Chang ](/people/bronia-greskovicova-chang) Associate Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute [### Dell M. Hamilton ](/people/dell-m-hamilton) Image and Publications Rights Coordinator Interim Director, Locke Gallery Visual Arts Editor, Transition Magazine [### Evelynn M. Hammonds ](/people/evelynn-hammonds) [evelynn\_hammonds@harvard.edu](mailto:evelynn_hammonds@harvard.edu)Director, Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African-American studies [### Tanya Larkin ](/people/tanya-larkin) Publications Manager and Managing Editor, Transition Magazine [### Shawn Lee ](/people/shawn-lee) Associate Director [### Krishna Lewis ](/people/krishna-lewis) [krishna\_lewis@harvard.edu](mailto:krishna_lewis@harvard.edu)Associate Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Director, Fellowship Program [### Sandra Mancebo ](/people/sandra-mancebo) Finance Associate [### Steven J. Niven ](/people/steven-j-niven) Executive Editor: Dictionary of African Biography, African American National Biography, Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography [### Justin Sneyd ](/people/justin-sneyd) Events Coordinator [### Tom Wolejko ](/people/tom-wolejko) Media and Technology Coordinator ## Current Fellows [### Charles Blow ](/people/charles-blow)Fall 2026 Langston Hughes Fellow ![Charles Blow](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/blow_charles-hdsht-7132023%20%281%29.png?h=5f8b6480&itok=lfrreSnk) [### Jordan Brown ](/people/jordan-brown)2025-2026 Dorothy Porter Fellow ![Jordan R. Brown](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Brown-J-photo.jpg?h=4d106fed&itok=dHuMPAhm) [### Rodney Carmichael ](/people/rodney-carmichael)2025-2026 Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow ![Rodney Carmichael](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Carmichael-R-photo-%281%29.jpg?itok=ZIL26jn7) [### Kendra Taira Field ](/people/kendra-taira-field)2025-2026 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow ![Kendra Taira Field](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Field-K-photo-%281%29.jpg?itok=WCftmENM) [### Arlette Frund ](/people/arlette-frund)Spring 2026 Hutchins Family Foundation Fellow ![Arlette Frund](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-10/Photo-AFrund.jpg?h=b4cc528c&itok=s8SK4pzJ) [### Cheryl Townsend Gilkes ](/people/cheryl-townsend-gilkes)Spring 2026 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow ![Cheryl Townsend Gilkes](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/CTGSPA064206_0.jpg?itok=yW6oY9n9) [### André Holland ](/people/andre-holland)2025-2026 Black Film Project Fellow ![André Holland](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/nuCGQTED_400x400.jpg?itok=gft-eU7g) [### Raven Jackson ](/people/raven-jackson)2025-2026 Black Film Project Fellow ![Raven Jackson](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/IMG_5256.jpeg?h=88fb93cd&itok=dTPW1PcE) [### Darol Olu Kae ](/people/darol-olu-kae)2025-2026 Black Film Project Fellow ![Darol Olu Kae](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Kae%20D%20photo%202.jpg?itok=phy8PfD9) [### Justine McConnell ](/people/justine-mcconnell)Spring 2026 McMillan-Stewart Fellow ![Justine McConnell](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/McConnell%20J%20photo.jpg?itok=7sh-S2RF) [### Jordan Taliha McDonald ](/people/jordan-taliha-mcdonald)2025-2026 Hutchins Family Foundation Fellow ![Jordan Taliha McDonald](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/jmcd.jpg?itok=dd6PGf-n) [### Charmaine A. Nelson ](/people/charmaine-nelson)2025-2026 McMillan-Stewart Fellow ![Charmaine A. Nelson](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/MeghanTanseyWhitton--19.jpg?itok=c6rd9zv2) [### Sanele Ntshingana ](/people/sanele-ntshingana)Fall 2025 Mandela Fellow ![Sanele Ntshingana in front of a brick building](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-11/IMG_0958.jpg?h=44a94ef7&itok=ql3yYU11) [### Hollis Robbins ](/people/hollis-robbins)2025-2026 Hutchins Family Foundation Fellow ![Hollis Robbins](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-11/thumbnail_HR22copy.jpg?itok=eMEqr6Kj) [### Anna Deavere Smith ](/people/anna-deavere-smith)2025-2026 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow ![Anna Deavere Smith](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Anna%20Deavere%20Smith%20Headshot.jpeg.preset.square.jpeg?itok=QijhDODg) [### Aurora Vergara-Figueroa ](/people/aurora-vergara-figueroa)2025-2026 Mark Mamolen Fellow ![Aurora Vergara-Figueroa](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Vergara%20A%20%20photo.jpg?itok=EFL7hbXO) [### Ted Widmer ](/people/ted-widmer)2025-2026 W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow ![Ted Widmer](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Widmer-T-photo-%281%29.jpg?itok=0b9-elRz) ## National Advisory Board [### Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn ](/people/shahara-ahmad-llewellyn) [### Bennett Ashley ](/people/bennett-ashley) [### Carol Biondi ](/people/carol-biondi) [### Paul Buttenwieser ](/people/paul-buttenwieser) [### Catherine Buttenwieser ](/people/catherine-buttenwieser) [### Kenneth I. Chenault ](/people/kenneth-i-chenault) [### Richard D. Cohen ](https://youtu.be/3NAwKF8G4nY?t=38m53s) [### Virgis W. Colbert ](/people/virgis-w-colbert) [### Ethelbert Cooper ](https://youtu.be/3NAwKF8G4nY?t=1h5m50s) [### Steve Cousins ](/people/steven-cousins) [### Suhrid Gajendragadkar ](/people/suhrid-gajendragadkar) [### Arjun Gupta ](/people/arjun-gupta) [### Jeremy Henderson ](/people/jeremy-henderson) [### Ben Horowitz ](/people/ben-horowitz) [### Glenn H. Hutchins ](/people/glenn-h-hutchins) [### Lewis P. Jones III ](/people/lewis-p-jones-iii) [### Mitch Kapor ](/people/mitch-kapor) [### Freada Kapor Klein ](/people/freada-kapor-klein) [### Joanna Lipper ](/people/joanna-lipper) [### Kay M. Madati ](/people/kay-m-madati) [### Sarah Ladipo Manyika ](/people/sarah-ladipo-manyika) [### James M. Manyika ](/people/james-m-manyika) [### Catherine C. Marron ](/people/catherine-c-marron) [### Demond Martin ](/people/demond-martin) [### Henry W. McGee III ](/people/henry-mcgee) [### Raymond J. McGuire ](/people/raymond-j-mcguire) [### Clare Muñana ](/people/clare-mu%C3%B1ana) [### Donald E. Newhouse ](/people/donald-e-newhouse) [### Peter Norton ](/people/peter-norton) [### Adebayo Ogunlesi ](/people/adebayo-ogunlesi) [### Ellen Pao ](/people/ellen-pao) [### Geryl T. Pearl ](/people/geryl-t-pearl) [### Richard L. Plepler ](/people/richard-l-plepler) [### Andrew Ramroop OBE ](/people/andrew-ramroop) [### Steven Rattner ](/people/steven-rattner) [### Lynda Resnick ](/people/lynda-resnick) [### Danny Rimer ](/people/danny-rimer) [### Daniel Rose ](/people/daniel-rose) [### Daryl Roth ](/people/daryl-roth) [### Douglas E. Schoen ](/people/douglas-e-schoen) [### Peter Schwabach ](/people/peter-schwabach) [### Larry E. Thompson ](/people/larry-e-thompson) [### Melissa Vail ](/people/melissa-vail) [### Davis Weinstock ](/people/davis-weinstock) [### Candace King Weir ](/people/candace-king-weir) [### Christina Weiss Lurie ](/people/christina-weiss-lurie) [### Linden Havemeyer Wise ](/people/linden-havemeyer-wise)