W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute

"Named after the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1895), the idea for the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research was proposed in the Report of the Faculty Committee on African and Afro-American Studies dated 20 January 1969. In May of 1975 in its progress report to President Derek C. Bok, the Institute's Advisory Board announced the establishment of four fellowships for the 1975-1976 academic year. The fellowships were intended to "facilitate the writing of doctoral dissertations in areas related to Afro-American studies." As such, the Du Bois Institute is the nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of Africans and African Americans...

"In addition, the Institute is actively involved with the community at large through its Martin Luther King, Jr. After-School Program and its W. E. B. Du Bois Society. The MLK After-School Program, which takes place at the Ella J. Baker House in Boston, teaches inner-city middle school and high school students both African and African American history and culture, and computer literacy. The Du Bois Society is an academic and cultural enrichment program, designed to engage secondary students of African descent who attend academically competitive public, parochial, and independent schools. It provides young people with an opportunity to develop study skills and teamwork as they reflect on and discuss readings with Harvard professors and undergraduates."


 * Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director

Executive Committee
Accessed August 2009:


 * Emmaneul K. Akyeampong
 * Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
 * Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
 * William Julius Wilson

Faculty Advisory Board
Accessed August 2009:


 * Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Chair
 * Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
 * Suzanne Preston Blier
 * Scott Brewer
 * James I. Cash, Jr.
 * Alan Counter
 * Felton James Earls
 * David Evans
 * Peter J. Gomes
 * Lani Guinier
 * Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
 * Linda Hill
 * Jennifer Hochschild
 * Randall L. Kennedy
 * Martin L. Kilson, Jr.
 * Florence C. Ladd
 * Michèle Lamont
 * Sara Lawerence-Lightfoot
 * Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
 * Jacob Olupona
 * Orlando Patterson
 * Alvin F. Poussaint
 * Deborah Prothrow-Stith
 * Robert J. Sampson
 * David A. Thomas
 * David B. Wilkins
 * Preston N. Williams
 * Charles Vert Willie
 * William Julius Wilson

National Advisory Board
Accessed August 2009:


 * Glenn H. Hutchins, Chair
 * Deborah Tanner Abell
 * Bennett Ashley
 * Peggy Cooper Cafritz
 * Gaston Caperton
 * Richard D. Cohen
 * Ethelbert Cooper
 * Norman Epstein
 * Alphonse Fletcher, Jr.
 * R. Brandon Fradd
 * Richard Gilder
 * Lewis P. Jones III
 * William Lewis
 * Robert McG. Lilley
 * Joanna Lipper
 * Mark C. Mamolen
 * Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron
 * Henry W. McGee III
 * Raymond McGuire
 * Rory Millson
 * Clare Muñana
 * Donald E. and Susan Newhouse
 * Peter Norton
 * E. Stanley O’Neal
 * Adebayo Ogunlesi
 * Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer
 * Nicole Parent
 * Frank H. and Geryl T. Pearl
 * Richard L. Plepler
 * Andrew Ramroop
 * Steve Rattner
 * Lynda Resnick
 * Danny Rimer
 * Daniel and Joanna S. Rose
 * Daryl Roth
 * George T. Wein
 * Davis Weinstock

Contact

 * Web: http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu

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