Professor at Harvard University and Harvard Law School
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Annette Gordon-Reed: No financial relationships to disclose
Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor of history at Harvard University, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Law School and the award-winning author of six books. Her latest book, “On Juneteenth,” sets out to capture the integral importance of the holiday to American history. It quickly became a New York Times bestseller, was featured on the magazine’s 100 Notable Books List and was chosen as one of its top five non-fiction books of the year. Gordon-Reed is also the author of “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in history and the National Book Award for nonfiction — along with 14 other awards. It explores the inconsistencies of President Thomas Jefferson’s stance on slavery and his relationship with enslaved woman Sally Hemings and has been called “the best study of a slave family ever written” by noted President Jefferson scholar Joseph Ellis. Her honors include the National Humanities Medal (awarded by President Barack Obama), a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. Gordon-Reed was the first black student to enroll in an all-white school in her town in Texas, which now houses a school named after her.
