Rate Professor Henry Gates Jr.

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in English, University of Cambridge, 1979; B.A., Yale University, 1973.

Research Interests: African and African-American literature, cultural studies, and genealogy.

Appointments: Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University; Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.

Awards: National Humanities Medal, 1998; MacArthur Fellowship, 1981.

Publications:

• The Signifying Monkey (Oxford University Press, 1988).
• Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (Penguin Press, 2019).

Additional Contributions: Host of PBS series Finding Your Roots.