and Ph.D.in English Literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge in 1979. in English Language and Literature, summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1973, and his M.A. He was named to Time’s 25 Most Influential Americans list in 1997 and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999. The recipient of more than 50 honorary degrees and numerous prizes, 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. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. His recent book, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (Penguin Random House, 2019), has been described as “a profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them.” His latest series, The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song, will air on PBS in February 2021. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic and institution builder, Gates has authored or co-authored 25 books and created 23 documentary films, including the popular PBS genealogy series Finding Your Roots. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School faculty and staff inclusive excellence training requirements. In case you missed it, watch the webinar recording.
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