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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
Portrait photo of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr FBA
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2021
Subjects
History, Humanities
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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