Henry Louis Gates Jr

literary critic and Harvard professor

Henry Louis (Skip) Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, as well as director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. He received a B.A. in English Language and Literature, summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1973. Professor Gates earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge. Before joining the faculty of Harvard in 1991, he taught at Yale, Cornell and Duke Universities. Professor Gates has received 51 honorary degrees, as well as a 1981 MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award," the 1993 George Polk Award for Social Commentary, and the 2008 Ralph Lowell Award, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's highest award.

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Person	Common Orgs
David Blight	New-York Historical Society, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Ric Burns	New-York Historical Society, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Michael Kremer	Harvard University, Brookings Institution
Lewis Lehrman	New-York Historical Society, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Jessica Tuchman Mathews	Harvard University, Brookings Institution
Stuart M Butler	Harvard University, Brookings Institution
James M Manyika	Brookings Institution, The Aspen Institute
Michael R Klein	The Aspen Institute, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc
Neil L. Rudenstine	Harvard University, New York Public Library
Karen Davis	Harvard University, Brookings Institution
Catherine C Marron	W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute, New York Public Library
Patricia Nelson Limerick	Harvard University, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Mark Duggan	Harvard University, Brookings Institution
David W Zalaznick	New-York Historical Society, Whitney Museum of American Art
David M Kennedy	New-York Historical Society, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Clare M Muñana	The Aspen Institute, W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute
Kenneth T Jackson	New-York Historical Society, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Melva Bucksbaum	The Aspen Institute, Whitney Museum of American Art
Ellen V Futter	Brookings Institution, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Patricia D Klingenstein	New-York Historical Society, New York Public Library

Types	Person, Academic
Gender	Male

Henry Louis Gates Jr

literary critic and Harvard professor

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