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Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Award-Winning Filmmaker, Literary Scholar, Journalist & Cultural Critic; Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Biography

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 and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has published numerous books and produced and hosted an array of documentary films. "The Black Church" (PBS) and "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" (HBO), which he executive produced, each received Emmy nominations. In January 2024, "Finding Your Roots," Gates’s groundbreaking genealogy and genetics series, returned for its tenth season on PBS. His next history series for PBS, "Gospel," premiered in February 2024.

Gates is a recipient of a number of honorary degrees, including his alma mater, the University of Cambridge. Gates was a member of the first class awarded “genius grants” by the MacArthur Foundation in 1981, and in 1998 he became the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. In 2001 he discovered the first novel written by a Black female author, "The Bondwoman’s Narrative," by Hannah Craft.

A native of Piedmont, West Virginia, Gates earned his B.A. in History, summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1973, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from Clare College at Cambridge in 1979, where he is also an Honorary Fellow. A former chair of the Pulitzer Prize board, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and serves on a wide array of boards, including the New York Public Library, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Aspen Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of America, and The Studio Museum of Harlem. In 2011, his portrait, by Yuqi Wang, was hung in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/14/2024.

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Speaking Topics

  • Finding Your Roots

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Videos

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  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - 42 Million Ways to Be Black - YouTube
    Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - 42 Million Ways to Be Black - YouTube
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Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Books

  • Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
    Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
  • 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
    100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
  • The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism
    The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism
  • Black in Latin America
    Black in Latin America
  • Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
    Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
  • Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies
    Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies

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