Financier’s $15 Million Gift to Expand Black Studies Research at Harvard - Higher Education

Financier’s $15 Million Gift to Expand Black Studies Research at Harvard - Higher Education: Harvard University announced Wednesday that it is launching the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research with a $15 million gift from a family foundation endowed by financier and Harvard alum Glenn Hutchins. The Hutchins Center will supersede the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute for African and African American Research, which houses the institutes, archives, publications and libraries associated with Harvard’s well-known Department of African and African-American Studies.

The new center will encompass the Du Bois Research Institute, the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute, the Image of the Black Archive and Library, the Du Bois Review, Transition Magazine, the Neil L. and Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery, and the Hutchins Family Library.

In addition, four new research entities will come under the purview of the Hutchins Center. They are the Afro-Latin American Research Institute; the History Design Studio; the Program for the Study of Race and Gender in Science and Medicine; and the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art, according to the university.