Annette Gordon-Reed | |
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 Gordon-Reed in 2011 | |
| Born | Annette Gordon November 19, 1958 Livingston, Texas, U.S. |
| Education | Dartmouth College (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
| Occupation(s) | Professor, author, historian |
| Employer(s) | Harvard Law School Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study |
| Known for | American Legal History, American Slavery and the Law |
| Spouse | Robert Reed |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | National Book Award for Nonfiction, MacArthur Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize for History |
Annette Gordon-Reed (born November 19, 1958)[1] is an American historian and law professor. She is currently the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and a professor of history in the university's Faculty of Arts & Sciences. She is formerly the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard University and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Gordon-Reed is noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson regarding his relationship with Sally Hemings and her children.
She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History and the National Book Award for Nonfiction and 15 other prizes in 2009 for her work on the Hemings family of Monticello. In 2010, she received the National Humanities Medal and a MacArthur Fellowship.[2] Since 2018, she has served as a trustee of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC. She was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. She is a Trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.[3]
- ^ Jennie Yabroff (October 4, 2008). "Annette Gordon-Reed on the Sally Hemings Saga". Newsweek. Retrieved September 11, 2010.
- ^ "Professor Annette Gordon-Reed '84 wins a MacArthur Fellowship (audio)". Harvard Law Today.
- ^ "Board of Trustees and Officers | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History".