Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, Harvard University Joined CSAC in 2005 Member of CSAC subject subcommittee

Named one of Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Americans” in 1997, Gates is also editor-in-chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center. “I want to restore the important contribution of our ancestors to the history books,” he says, “but also to your living room, parlor and kitchen.” Gates wrote and produced the award-winning PBS documentary “African American Lives,” the first to examine African American history using genealogical data and DNA. He is co-founder of AfricanDNA, a DNA testing service geared specifically toward African American genealogy.