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14070219_Cover_Layout 1 8/14/14 10:18 AM Page 1 A N N Annual Report U A L R 2014 E P O R T 2 0 1 4 H U T C H I N S C E N T E R F O R A F R I C A N & A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N R E S E A R C H 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R Cambridge, MA 02138 H A 617.495.8508 Phone R V 617.495.8511 Fax A R D U hutchinscente r@ fas.harvard.edu N I V hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu E R S facebook.com/hutchinscenter I T twitter.com/hutchinscenter Y 14070219_Text_Layout 1 8/14/14 9:48 AM Page 1 Understanding our history, as Americans and as African Americans, is essential to re-imagining the future of our country. How black people endured and thrived, how they created a universal culture that is uniquely American, how they helped write the story of this great nation, is one of the most stirring sagas of the modern era. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University 1 14070219_Text_Layout 1 8/14/14 9:48 AM Page 2 Annual Report 2014 4 13 Letter from the Director 18 Featured Events 28–45 Flagships of the Hutchins Center 46 A Synergistic Hub of Intellectual Fellowship 56 Annual Lecture Series 58 Archives, Manuscripts, and Collections 59 Biographical Dictionary Projects 60 Research Projects and Outreach 66 Hutchins Center Special Events 70 Staff 72 Come and Visit Us Harvard University 14070219_Text_Layout 1 8/14/14 9:48 AM Page 3 28 34 36 38 40 42 43 44 45 3 14070219_Text_Layout 1 8/14/14 9:49 AM Page 4 Director Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Executive Director Abby Wolf The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research is fortunate to have the support of Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust, Provost Alan M. Garber, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith, Associate Dean for Administrative Social Sciences Beverly Beatty, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development Laura Gordon Fisher, and Assistant Dean for Campus Design and Planning Nazneen Cooper. What we are able to accomplish at the Hutchins Center would not be possible without their generosity and engagement. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Maria Makhabane, Wole Soyinka, Glenn H. Hutchins. Photo: Tony Rinaldo. Cover: Architectural rendering of the new façade ot the Hutchins Center. Courtesy of Adjaye Associates. 4 14070219_Text_Layout 1 8/14/14 9:49 AM Page 5 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Lawrence D. Bobo Caroline Elkins Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham William Julius Wilson Lawrence D. Bobo. Caroline Elkins. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. William Julius Wilson. 5 14070219_Text_Layout 1 8/14/14 9:49 AM Page 6 Hutchins Center for African & African American Research STEERING COMMITTEE Henry Louis Gates., Jr., Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Lawrence D. Bobo, Executive Committee of the Hutchins Center and Editor of Du Bois Review Vincent Brown, Director of the History Design Studio Sara Bruya, Managing Editor of Transition and Du Bois Review Sheldon Cheek, Assistant Director of the Image of the Black Archive & Library Alejandro de la Fuente, Director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute and Editor of Transition Caroline Elkins, Executive Committee of the Hutchins Center Vera Ingrid Grant, Director of the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art Evelynn M. Hammonds, Director of the Program for the Study of Race & Gender in Science & Medicine Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Executive Committee of the Hutchins Center Glenn H. Hutchins, Chairman of the National Advisory Board of the Hutchins Center Krishna Lewis, Fellows Officer of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute James Manyika, National Advisory Board of the Hutchins Center Ingrid Monson, Director of the Harvard Jazz Research Initiative Marcyliena Morgan, Director of the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute William Julius Wilson, Executive Committee of the Hutchins Center Abby Wolf, Executive Director of the Hutchins Center 6 14070219_Text_Layout 1 8/14/14 9:49 AM Page 7 Henry Louis Gates., Jr. Lawrence D. Bobo. Vincent Brown. Sara Bruya. Sheldon Cheek. Alejandro de la Fuente. 7 14070219_Text_Layout 1 8/14/14 9:49 AM Page 8 Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Caroline Elkins. Vera Ingrid Grant. Photo Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Evelynn M. Hammonds. Photo: Harvard Public Affairs & Communications, Stephanie Mitchell. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Glenn H. Hutchins. Krishna Lewis. Photo: Ben Lewis. 8 14070219_Text_Layout 1 8/14/14 9:49 AM Page 9 James Manyika. Courtesy of McKinsey & Company. Ingrid Monson. Marcyliena Morgan. William Julius Wilson. Abby Wolf. 9 14070219_Text_Layout 1 8/14/14 9:49 AM Page 10 Hutchins Center for African & African American Research NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Glenn H. Hutchins, Chair Lynda Resnick Debra Tanner Abell Danny Rimer Bennett Ashley Daniel Rose Carol Biondi Joanna Rose Frank Biondi Daryl Roth Peggy Cooper Cafritz David Roux Gaston Caperton Douglas E. Schoen Kenneth I. Chenault Larry E. Thompson Richard D. Cohen George T. Wein Virgis Colbert Davis Weinstock Ethelbert Cooper Candace King Weir Norman Epstein Linden Havemeyer Wise Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. Glenn H. Hutchins. R. Brandon Fradd Nancy Garvey Richard Gilder Nicole Parent Haughey Jeremy Henderson Ben Horowitz Lewis P. Jones III Freada Kapor Klein Mitch Kapor Robert McG. Lilley Joanna Lipper Michael Lynton Kay Madati Mark C. Mamolen James Manyika Richard D. Cohen. Photo: Tony Rinaldo. Catherine C. Marron Donald B. Marron Henry W. McGee III Raymond J. McGuire Rory Millson Clare Muñana Donald E. Newhouse Susan Newhouse Peter Norton Adebayo Ogunlesi E. Stanley O’Neal Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Geryl T. Pearl Richard L. Plepler Andrew Ramroop Steven Rattner Ethelbert Cooper. Photo: Natasha Cooper. 10 14070219_Text_Layout 1 8/14/14 9:49 AM Page 11 Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer. Photo: Tony Rinaldo. Gaston Capterton and Noalee Harel. Photo: Tony Rinaldo. Daniel Rose. Joanna Rose. Marcyliena Morgan and Nasir Jones. Carol Biondi. Photo: Mark Alan Lovewell. 11 14070219_Text_Layout 1 8/14/14 9:49 AM Page 12 Hutchins Center for African & African American Research UBUNTU CIRCLE FRIENDS OF THE COOPER CIRCLE SUPPORTERS HUTCHINS CENTER OF THE Glenn H. Hutchins Og Amazu HUTCHINS CENTER Larry Donnell Andrews Blair Effron Femi Bajomo Denise Boyd Andrews Cheryl Effron Martin Botha Julie M. Bleicher Coatue Foundation Esta Epstein Nicolas Bravard Jeffrey A. Chapman Richard D. Cohen Robert Epstein Dorin Citu Benjamin Dinkins Ethelbert Cooper William Cooper Valerie Dinkins Arjun Gupta Daubeny Cooper Dolan Hubbard Ben Horowitz Gerald Cooper J. Ruth Hubbard Donald Newhouse DU BOIS CIRCLE Ken Etete Stephen M. Taylor Susan Newhouse Patrick Girod Daniel Rose Kathleen Allaire Louis Greyling Joanna Rose Brandon Fradd Richard Herbert David Roux Ronald Gault Faiz Imam Donna Green Egbert Imomoh Michael Stemberg Magaji Inuwa John Luke Haresh Kanabar Daniel Rose Gus Kouwenhoven Joanna Rose Rilwanu Lukman May Rudin Dew Mayson Samuel Rudin Thomas McLarty Stacy Schiff Bex Nwawudu Melissa Vail Labi Ogunbiyi Davis Weinstock Guy Pas Oliver Pilkington Emmanuel Quartey Daniel Richard Angus Robertson Osman Shahenshah John St. John Shahid Ullah Galib Virani Carson Wen Ewen Wigley 12 14070219_Text_Layout 1 8/14/14 9:49 AM Page 13 Letter from the Director Henry Louis Gates, Jr. It is with joy and gratitude for the past and the present commitment to diversity and intellectual expansiveness. and excitement for the future that I write my first annual I trust no one who attended the inaugural Hutchins letter as founding director of the Hutchins Center for Center Honors will forget it. It was a once-in-a-lifetime African & African American Research at Harvard event filled with faculty, friends, family, and honored University. Ceremonially launched on October 2, 2013, guests, University leaders, distinguished former medal- the Hutchins Center is Harvard’s twenty-fifth research ists, and a program enriched by readings from Du Bois, center and the world’s largest devoted to the study of the music of the Kuumba singers, a video of launch-day the history, culture, socioeconomic, and political status, wishes, and an aura of energy and emotion that can only and social institutions of people of African descent occur when past and future meet on the same stage. around the globe. The Hutchins Center evolved out of To mark the occasion, we presented the distin- the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, which was established guished W. E. B. Du Bois Medal in recognition of highest at Harvard in 1975 to support research in the field by achievement in African American history and culture to awarding residential fellowships. Our growth since 1975 a six-member inaugural class that included White has been astounding: the Hutchins Center is also now House advisor Valerie Jarrett, playwright Tony Kushner, home to six additional research units––including the Congressman John Lewis, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Du Bois Research Institute––two journals, and a major art Sotomayor, filmmaker Steven Spielberg, and former gallery. Our ethos and physical setting are interdiscipli- NBA commissioner David Stern. Presenting the medals nary. We seek to serve society by bringing together the was a uniquely distinguished group as well: Governor best scholars, writers, visual artists and musicians, Deval Patrick for Jarrett; American Repertory Theater both at Harvard and at other institutions, in one location Artistic Director Diane Paulus for Kushner; Glenn where they can work, commune, and collaborate, and, in Hutchins for Congressman Lewis; Martha Minow, Dean of doing so, illuminate new truths and introduce new lines Harvard Law School, for Justice Sotomayor; Harvard of inquiry that will address pressing global challenges. President Drew Faust for Spielberg; and NBA legend Bill Our name and inspiration come from visionary Russell for Stern.