Henry Louis Gates, Jr. earned his MA and PhD in English Literature
from Clare College at the University of Cambridge, and his B.A.
summa cum laude in English literature from Yale University. Before
coming to Harvard (where he served as Chair of the African American
Studies Department from 1991 to 2006), he taught at Yale, Cornell,
and Duke. His grants and honors include a MacArthur Foundation
"genius grant," the George Polk Award for
Social Commentary, Time Magazine's "25 Most Influential Americans"
list, a National Humanities Medal, election to the American Academy
of Arts and Letters, the Jefferson Lecture, a Visiting Fellowship
at the School of Social
Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and 44
honorary degrees. Dr. Gates is the author of several works of
literary criticism and is the Editor in Chief of the Oxford African
American Studies Center, Series Editor of the Collected Black
Writers series and of the Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois, and served as
Editor in Chief with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham for African
American Lives. He was recently named the Alphonse Fletcher
University Professor at Harvard.
Kwame Anthony Appiah earned his BA and PhD in Philosophy from
Cambridge. Before coming to Princeton, he taught at Yale, Cornell,
Duke and Harvard and lectured at many other institutions in the
United States, Germany, Ghana and South Africa, as well as at the
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Dr. Appiah
has published widely in African and African American literary and
cultural studies, and has previously served as Editor in Chief with
Henry
Louis Gates Jr. for the Dictionary of Global Culture and the
Encarta Africana CD-ROM encyclopedia, which became the basis for
the encyclopedia Africana published by OUP.
"The Encyclopedia of Africa is well written and enjoyably readable...with major scholars (J. Lorand Matory, Ali Mazrui, et al.) contributing substantive, even pathbreaking work. Highly recommended."--CHOICE
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