The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has named Henry Louis Gates Jr. the recipient of the Don M. Randel Award for Humanistic Studies. The award — which is being given for only the seventh time since it was established in 1975 — recognizes remarkable scholars whose work shapes our inner lives and our understanding of the world around us.

A prolific scholar and public intellectual, Gates’s work exploring and illuminating African American history and culture is incomparable. He is on the CAS Executive Committee and is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

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