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Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr FBA

African and African American literary criticism; African American intellectual and cultural history; genetics and genealogy; producing documentary films about the African Diaspora and genetics and genealogy

Elected 2021

Portrait photo of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr FBA
Fellow type
Corresponding Fellow
Year elected
2021
Sections
Modern History from 1850

Current post

Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University Alphonse Fletcher University Professor

Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University Director

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