Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Alphonse Fletcher University ProfessorDirector, Hutchins Center for African & African American ResearchFaculty Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute
Emmanuel AkyeampongOppenheimer Faculty Director, Center for African StudiesEllen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American StudiesHutchins Center Executive Committee; Director, Workshop on African History and Economics
Elizabeth AlexanderW. E. B. Du Bois Medalist, 2019Poet, Educator, and President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation