Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
November 15 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
$85A native of Piedmont, West Virginia, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. earned his B.A. in History, summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1973, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from Clare College at Cambridge in 1979, where he is also an Honorary Fellow. A former chair of the Pulitzer Prize board, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and serves on a wide array of boards, including the New York Public Library, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Aspen Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of America, and The Studio Museum of Harlem.
This conversation will be moderated by Marshall President Brad. D. Smith.