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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. 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

Rita Freed
Academic Year 2026-2027
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Rita Freed

Hazim Hardeman
Academic Year 2026-2027
Dorothy Porter & Charles Harris Wesley Fellow
Hazim Hardeman looking towards the camera against a gray background

Lee Hawkins
Academic Year 2026-2027
Hutchins Family Foundation Fellow
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Yuko Miki
Academic Year 2026-2027
Mark Claster Mamolen Fellow
Yuko Miki turning and smiling at the photographer against a turquoise background

Jewel Pereyra
Academic Year 2026-2027
Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow
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Ebonie Pollock
Academic Year 2026-2027
Dorothy Porter & Charles Harris Wesley Fellow
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National Advisory Board

Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn
Bennett Ashley
Carol Biondi
Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser
Kenneth I. Chenault
Richard D. Cohen
Virgis W. Colbert
Steve Cousins
Suhrid Gajendragadkar
Arjun Gupta
Jeremy Henderson
Ben Horowitz
Glenn H. Hutchins
Lewis P. Jones III
Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein
Joanna Lipper
Michael Lynton
Kay M. Madati
James M. and Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Catherine C. Marron
Demond Martin
Henry W. McGee III
Raymond J. McGuire
E. Scott Mead
Tamara Mitchel and Daniel Ross
Clare Muñana
Peter Norton
Adebayo Ogunlesi
Ellen Pao
Geryl T. Pearl
Richard L. Plepler
Andrew Ramroop OBE
Steven Rattner
Lynda Resnick
Danny Rimer
Daniel Rose
Daryl Roth
Douglas E. Schoen
Peter Schwabach
Larry E. Thompson
Melissa Vail
Davis Weinstock
Candace King Weir
Christina Weiss Lurie
Linden Havemeyer Wise