Executive Profile

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ph.D. Community Advisor, Counsyl, Inc.

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Background

Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PhD serves as a Community Advisor of Counsyl, Inc. Prof. Gates serves as a Director of W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and Professor of Harvard University. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Reframe It, Inc. He serves as a Director of Charles H. Revson Foundation, The. He serves as a Trustee of National Constitution Center, Wrence University of Wisconsin and Whitney ... Museum of American Art LLC. He serves as a Honorary Trustee of The Brookings Institution. Prof. Gates is Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center. He is co-editor with K. Anthony Appiah of the encyclopedia Encarta Africana published on CD-ROM by Microsoft (1999), and in book form by Basic Civitas Books under the title Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999). Before joining the faculty of Harvard in 1991, he taught at Yale, Cornell, and Duke. He served as Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard from 1991 to 2006. He serves on the boards of the New York Public Library, Whitney Museum, Lincoln Center Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Aspen Institute, the Brookings Institution, the Studio Museum of Harlem, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. His honors and grants include a MacArthur? Foundation "genius grant" (1981), the George Polk Award for Social Commentary (1993), Time magazine's "25 Most Influential Americans" list (1997), a National Humanities Medal (1998), election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1999), the Jefferson Lecture (2002), a Visiting Fellowship at the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2003-2004), the Jay B. Hubbell Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association (2006), ), the Rave Award from Wired Magazine (2007), the Let's Do It Better Award from of the Columbia University School of Journalism for "African American Lives" (2007), and the Cultures of Peace Award from the City of the Cultures of Peace (2007).He became a member of Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year at Yale. He has received nearly 50 honorary degrees, from institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, New York University, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Williams College, Emory University, Howard University, University of Toronto, and the University of Benin. In 2006, he was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution, after he traced his lineage back to John Redman, a Free Negro who fought in the Revolutionary War. Prof. Gates holds an MA and Ph.D. in English literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge, and a BA in History from Yale University, where he was a Scholar of the House, in 1973.

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