Hutchins Center for African and African American Research

The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, also known as the Hutchins Center, is affiliated with Harvard University. 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, with the rebranding as the Hutchins Center occurring in 2013.

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.^[1]

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.^[2] 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".^[2]

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.^[3][4]

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.^[5]

As of December 2020Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the director of the Center.^[6]

ينشر المركز مجلة Transition Magazine ، ^{[ 7 ]} ويرتبط بمجلة Du Bois Review (التي يحررها أستاذ العلوم الاجتماعية في جامعة هارفارد، لورانس د. بوبو ). ^{[ 8 ]}

مشروع السيرة الذاتية الوطنية للأمريكيين الأفارقة هو مشروع مشترك بين مركز هاتشينز ودار نشر جامعة أكسفورد . ^{[ 9 ]}

دعم المركز إنشاء مركز دراسة إرث ملكية العبيد البريطانية في جامعة كوليدج لندن . وقاعدة بيانات المركز الإلكترونية، بعنوان "إرث ملكية العبيد البريطانية"، متاحة مجاناً للاستخدام العام. ^{[ 10 ]}

في عام 2000، بدأ مركز هاتشينز بمنح ميدالية دبليو إي بي دو بويز، والتي تعتبر أعلى تكريم في جامعة هارفارد في مجال الدراسات الأفريقية والأمريكية الأفريقية. ^{[ 11 ]}

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