The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, also known as the Hutchins Center, is affiliated with
Harvard University
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. The Center supports scholarly research on the history and culture of
people of African descent around the world, facilitates collaboration and aims to increase public awareness of the subject. It was established as the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute in May 1975, making it the oldest research center focused on the study of the history, culture, and society of Africans and
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa ...
, with the rebranding as the Hutchins Center occurring in 2013.
Affiliated institutes
The Hutchins Center includes or supports a number of research institutes and projects, including the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute, the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, the Image of the Black Archive & Library, the Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine, the History Design Studio and the Jazz Research Initiative. It is also home to the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, also known as the Cooper Gallery.
History
The Center was established as the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute in May 1975, making it the oldest research center focused on the study of the history, culture, and society of Africans and
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa ...
.
It was named after the first African American to be awarded a
Ph.D. from Harvard in 1895,
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. It was established to create fellowships that would "facilitate the writing of doctoral dissertations in areas related to Afro-American Studies".
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The Hutchins Center was launched in September 2013, named in honor of a $15 million gift from the Hutchins Family Foundation endowed by Glenn Hutchins. It continued to incorporate the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute.]
Description
The Hutchins Center supports scholarly research on the history and culture of people of African descent around the world, facilitates collaboration and aims to increase public awareness of the subject.
Publications and projects
The Center publishes '' Transition Magazine'',African American National Biography Project
The African American National Biography Project is a joint project of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University and Oxford University Press. The object of the project is to publish and maintain a database o ...
is a joint project of the Hutchins Center and Oxford University Press
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.
The Center supported the establishment of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership at University College London
University College London (Trade name, branded as UCL) is a Public university, public research university in London, England. It is a Member institutions of the University of London, member institution of the Federal university, federal Uni ...
. The Centre's online database, the Legacies of British Slave-ownership, is free for public use.
W. E. B. Du Bois Medal
In 2000, the Hutchins Center began awarding the W. E. B. Du Bois Medal, which is considered Harvard's highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.
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Harvard University research institutes