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Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research yesterday named 23 scholars as resident fellows for this academic year, according to a statement from the Institute.
According to Fellows Officer Richard A. Newman, the DuBois Institute was established in 1975 and aims to provide its fellows with a chance to do research they might not have been able to do.
Projects in the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research initiated during Gates' tenure include the Black Periodical Literature Project, a compilation of works in black newspapers and journals; the African Art Database, which contains 20,000 slides; and the Encyclopedia Africana.
"This is the kind of thing Bill Wilson does regularly," Gates says. "I want the department and the [DuBois] Institute to play an active role in policy matters."
Henry Louis Gates Jr., DuBois professor of the humanities, is teaching a new course that focuses on the autobiography within the African-American literary tradition.