From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African- • Professor Jennifer Hochschild - Henry LaBarre Jayne
American Research is located at Harvard University and Professor of Government, Harvard University
was established in 1969. It is named after W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Government
who was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. • Professor Caroline M. Hoxby - Department of
from Harvard University (1895).[1] The Institute awards Economics Harvard University, Harvard College
up to twenty fellowships annually to scholars at various Professorship
stages in their careers in the fields of African and African • Professor Randall L. Kennedy - Professor of Law
American studies to facilitate the writing of doctoral dis- Harvard Law School
sertations. The Institute is also involved in the communi- • Professor Martin L. Kilson, Jr. - Frank G. Thomson
ty through the W. E. B. Du Bois Society. Research Professor of Government, Harvard
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the director of the Institute. University John F. Kennedy School of Government
Gates hosted and co-produced the PBS documentaries (Emeritus)
African American Lives and African American Lives 2 in • Florence C. Ladd - Harvard University
which the lineage of notable African Americans is traced • Professor Michele Lamont - Harvard University
using genealogical resources and DNA testing. Department of Sociology
• Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot - Emily Hargroves
Faculty Advisory Board Fisher Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate
School of Education
• Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - (Chair of the Board • Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. - Jesse Climenko
of Advisors) Harvard University Department of Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
African and African American Studies, Chair W. E. B. • Professor Gary Orfield, Professor of Education and
Du Bois Institute for African and African American Social Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Research, Director • Professor Orlando Patterson - John Cowles Professor
• Professor Emmanuel K. Akyeampong - Harvard of Sociology, Department of Sociology Harvard
College Professor and Professor of History and of University
African and African American Studies (Chair, • Professor Alvin F. Poussaint - Judge Baker Children’s
Committee on African Studies) Center, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Associate
• Professor Suzanne Preston Blier - Allen Whitehill Dean for Student Affairs, Harvard Medical School
Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and African and • Professor Robert J. Sampson - Henry Ford II
African American Studies, Harvard University, Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of
Department of African and African American Studies Sociology Harvard University
and Department of the History of Art and • Professor Deborah Prothrow-Stith - Associate Dean
Architecture for Faculty Development, Harvard School of Public
• Professor James I. Cash, Jr. - Harvard Business School Health
(Retired) • Professor David A. Thomas - H. Naylor Fitzhugh
• Professor Felton James Earls - Project on Human Professor of Business Administration, Harvard
Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, Harvard Business School
Medical School • Professor Charles Vert Willie - Harvard Graduate
• Reverend Peter J. Gomes - Plummer Professor of School of Education (Emeritus)
Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial • Professor David B. Wilkins - Kirkland & Ellis
Church, Harvard Divinity School Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
• Professor Lani Guinier - Bennett Boskey Professor of • Professor Preston N. Williams - Houghton Professor
Law Harvard Law School of Theology and Contemporary Change
• Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham - Victor S.
Thomas Professor of History and African and African
American Studies, Harvard University, American
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Studies and Department of History [1] PBS
• Professor Linda Hill - Wallace Brett Donham
Professor of Business Administration, Harvard
Business School
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