Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Professor Gates is Editorin- Chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center, the first comprehensive scholarly online resource in the field of African- American Studies and Africana Studies. In 2006, Professor Gates wrote and produced the PBS documentary "African-American Lives," the first documentary series to employ genealogy and science to provide an understanding of African-American history. He also wrote and produced the documentaries "Wonders of the African World" (2000) and "America Beyond the Color Line" (2004) for the BBC and PBS, and authored the companion volumes to both series.
Professor Gates earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge, and his B.A. summa cum laude in English language and literature from Yale University in 1973. Before joining the faculty of Harvard in 1991, he taught at Yale, Cornell, and Duke.
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