#  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 

Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor

Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research

 

 

 



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Henry Louis Gates Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder. Professor Gates is a founder of the AfricaMap and WorldMap map platforms which support a range of map-based collaborations within Harvard and outside Harvard. Professor Gates has also developed a range of analytic maps based on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database which he uses in teaching and in his PBS series [Finding Your Roots](http://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/).



 

 

 





 

 

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