W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
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The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research is located at Harvard University
and was established in 1969. It is named after W. E. B. Du Bois who was the first African American
to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1895). The Institute awards up to twenty fellowships annually to scholars at various stages in their careers in the fields of African and African American studies to facilitate the writing of doctoral dissertations. The Institute is also involved in the community through the W. E. B. Du Bois Society.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
is the director of the Institute. Gates hosted and co-produced the PBS documentaries African American Lives
and African American Lives 2 in which the lineage of notable African Americans is traced using genealogical resources and DNA testing.
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
and was established in 1969. It is named after W. E. B. Du Bois who was the first African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1895). The Institute awards up to twenty fellowships annually to scholars at various stages in their careers in the fields of African and African American studies to facilitate the writing of doctoral dissertations. The Institute is also involved in the community through the W. E. B. Du Bois Society.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and...
is the director of the Institute. Gates hosted and co-produced the PBS documentaries African American Lives
African American Lives
African American Lives is a PBS television miniseries hosted by historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr., focusing on African American genealogical research...
and African American Lives 2 in which the lineage of notable African Americans is traced using genealogical resources and DNA testing.
Faculty Advisory Board
- Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and...
- (Chair of the Board of Advisors) Harvard University Department of African and African American Studies, Chair W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Director - Professor Emmanuel K. Akyeampong - Harvard CollegeHarvard CollegeHarvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...
Professor and Professor of History and of African and African American Studies (Chair, Committee on African Studies) - Professor Suzanne Preston Blier - Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Department of African and African American Studies and Department of the History of Art and Architecture
- Professor James I. Cash, Jr. - Harvard Business SchoolHarvard Business SchoolHarvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...
(Retired) - Professor Felton James Earls - Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, Harvard Medical SchoolHarvard Medical SchoolHarvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....
- Reverend Peter J. GomesPeter J. GomesPeter John Gomes was an American preacher and theologian,the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School and Pusey Minister at Harvard's Memorial Church—in the words of Harvard's president "one of the great preachers of our generation, and a living symbol of courage and...
- Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial ChurchMemorial Church of Harvard UniversityThe Memorial Church of Harvard University, more commonly known as the Harvard Memorial Church is a building on the campus of Harvard University.-Predecessors:...
, Harvard Divinity SchoolHarvard Divinity SchoolHarvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. The School's mission is to train and educate its students either in the academic study of religion, or for the practice of a religious ministry or other public... - Professor Lani GuinierLani GuinierLani Guinier is an American lawyer, scholar and civil rights activist. The first African-American woman tenured professor at Harvard Law School, Guinier's work includes professional responsibilities of public lawyers, the relationship between democracy and the law, the role of race and gender in...
- Bennett Boskey Professor of Law Harvard Law SchoolHarvard Law SchoolHarvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S... - Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham - Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University, American Studies and Department of History
- Professor Linda Hill - Wallace Brett DonhamWallace Brett DonhamWallace Brett Donham was the second dean of the Harvard Business School from 1919-1942. The use of case studies in HBS education was greatly expanded during Donham's time as dean.-References:...
Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School - Professor Jennifer Hochschild - Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Harvard University Department of Government
- Professor Caroline M. Hoxby - Department of Economics Harvard University, Harvard College Professorship
- Professor Randall L. Kennedy - Professor of Law Harvard Law School
- Professor Martin L. Kilson, Jr. - Frank G. Thomson Research Professor of Government, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of GovernmentJohn F. Kennedy School of GovernmentThe John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is a public policy and public administration school, and one of Harvard's graduate and professional schools...
(Emeritus) - Florence C. Ladd - Harvard University
- Professor Michele LamontMichèle LamontMichèle Lamont is a sociologist and is currently the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and a Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Harvard University.-Career:...
- Harvard University Department of Sociology - Professor Sara Lawrence-LightfootSara Lawrence-LightfootSara Lawrence-Lightfoot is an American sociologist who examines the culture of schools, the patterns and structures of classroom life, socialization within families and communities, and the relationships between culture and learning styles...
- Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of EducationHarvard Graduate School of EducationThe Harvard Graduate School of Education is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University, and is one of the top schools of education in the United States. It was founded in 1920, the same year it invented the Ed.D... - Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. - Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
- Professor Gary OrfieldGary OrfieldGary Orfield is an American professor of education, law, political science and urban planning at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, formerly of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is co-founder of The Civil Rights Project, now called The Civil Rights...
, Professor of Education and Social Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Education - Professor Orlando PattersonOrlando PattersonOrlando Patterson is a Jamaica-born American historical and cultural sociologist known for his work regarding issues of race in the America, as well as the sociology of development, currently holding the John Cowles chair in Sociology at Harvard University. Patterson took his B.Sc in Economics...
- John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology Harvard University - Professor Alvin F. PoussaintAlvin F. PoussaintAlvin Francis Poussaint is a noted professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the author of numerous books on child psychiatry, with a particular focus on the raising of African American children.-Biography:...
- Judge Baker Children's Center, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Harvard Medical School - Professor Robert J. SampsonRobert J. SampsonRobert J. Sampson is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Chair of the Department of Sociology. Before joining Harvard he taught in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago for twelve years and before that the University of Illinois at...
- Henry Ford IIHenry Ford IIHenry Ford II , commonly known as "HF2" and "Hank the Deuce", was the son of Edsel Ford and grandson of Henry Ford...
Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology Harvard University - Professor Deborah Prothrow-Stith - Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Harvard School of Public HealthHarvard School of Public HealthThe Harvard School of Public Health is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill, which is next to Harvard Medical School. HSPH is considered a significant school focusing on health in the...
- Professor David A. Thomas - H. Naylor FitzhughH. Naylor FitzhughHoward Naylor Fitzhugh was one of the first African American graduates of Harvard Business School and is also credited with creating the concept of target marketing....
Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School - Professor Charles Vert Willie - Harvard Graduate School of Education (Emeritus)
- Professor David B. Wilkins - Kirkland & EllisKirkland & EllisKirkland & Ellis LLP is an international law firm with headquarters in Chicago, known for its profitability and its litigation, bankruptcy, intellectual property and private equity departments. Kirkland & Ellis is currently ranked as the ninth most prestigious law firm in the United States by...
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School - Professor Preston N. Williams - Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change