Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates

When: August 3rd, 2012

Time: 7:30 PM

Place:
Thunder River Theatre
67 Promenade
Carbondale, Co 81623

Tickets: $15

Professor Gates will be discussing his studies on genealogy. In 2010 he hosted a four part series on PBS examining the genealogy of 12 prominent North Americans including Mike Nichols, Queen Noor, Dr. Mehmet Oz, and Meryl Streep. Following the discusson, he will present his findings on a DNA sample of Jim Calaway.

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Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and development of academic institutions to study black culture. In 2002, Gates was selected to give the Jefferson Lecture, in recognition of his “distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.”

As the host of the 2006 and 2008 PBS television miniseries African American Lives, Gates explored the genealogy of prominent African Americans. Gates sits on the boards of many notable arts, cultural, and research institutions. He serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, where he is director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.