W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute

The Fellows Program is at the heart of the activities of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute

Started in 1975 as the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, the Institute has annually appointed scholars who conduct individual research for a period of one to two semesters in a wide variety of fields related to African and African American Studies. With a record of supporting more than 700 Fellows since its founding, the Institute has arguably done more in its short existence to ensure the scholarly development of African and African American Studies than any other pre-doctoral or post-doctoral program in the United States.

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Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. standing with a group of visiting fellows, smiling and facing the camera together

Current Fellows
A young Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. stands among a dozen members of the 2000-2001 class of fellows in front of a brick building, posing and smiling for the camera together

Alumni Fellows
Black and white photo of a young W. E. B. Du Bois sitting at a large desk scattered with books and papers

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About W.E.B. DuBois

Scholar, writer, editor, and civil rights pioneer, was born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the son of Mary Silvina Burghardt, a domestic worker, and Alfred Du Bois, a barber and itinerant laborer.

In later life Du Bois made a close study of his family origins, weaving them rhetorically and conceptually—if not always accurately—into almost everything he wrote.

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