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Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Literary scholar, filmmaker, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored seventeen books and created thirteen documentary films and film series, including "Wonders of the African World", "African American Lives", "Black in Latin America", and "Finding Your Roots", now in its second season on PBS. His six-part PBS documentary series, "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" earned the 2013 Peabody Award and NAACP Image Award. Having written for such leading publications as "The New Yorker", "The New York Times", and "Time", Professor Gates serves as editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com and oversees the Oxford African American Studies Center. Professor Gates’s latest book is "Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series", released by the University of North Carolina Press in 2014.
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