W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Projects

The Institute is home to a number of important research and outreach projects:

African AIDS Initiative International, Inc.

Elleni Gebreamlak West, Executive Director

African American Lives, Genealogy and Genetics Curriculum Project

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director

African American National Biography Project

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, General Editors

African Art Database / Africa Map

Suzanne Preston Blier, Director

African Genome Project

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Christine Allocca, and Fatimah Jackson, Directors

American Inequality Lab

Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Director

Bamun Art Worlds: Integration and Innovation in Grassland Cameroon from 1700 to the Present

Suzanne Preston Blier, Director

Black Patriots Project

Jane Ailes and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Co-Directors

Central Africa Diaspora to the Americas Project

Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton (Boston University), Co-Directors

Community Development Project

Ololade Olakanmi and Babak Mostaghimi, Co-Directors

Dictionary of African Biography

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., General Editors

Local Commitments, National Aspirations: The History of an African Elite 

Carola Lentz, Director

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Co-Director

Waldo E. Martin Jr. (University of California at Berkeley), Co-Director

Patricia A. Sullivan (University of South Carolina), Co-Director

New Genetics and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Database Working Group

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelynn M. Hammonds, Co-Directors

Voices of Diversity

Paula Caplan, Director

W. E. B. Du Bois Society

Jacqueline Rivers, Director

Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study

William Julius Wilson, Director

Working Group on Environmental Justice

James Hoyte and Timothy C. Weiskel, Program Directors