Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. A renowned law professor and scholar of American history, Annette has held professorships at Harvard Law School, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Queen’s College, University of Oxford, New York Law School, and Rutgers-Newark University. She has published and edited eight books, among them The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008), which won sixteen awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in History, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and the George Washington Prize.
Annette’s honors include the National Humanities Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship in the humanities, a fellowship from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She is currently the president of Harvard Law School’s Ames Foundation, and will serve as president of the Organization of American Historians in 2026. Gordon-Reed was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. In 2022, Annette Gordon-Reed Elementary School opened in the Conroe Independent School District in her home state of Texas.
Annette holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an AB from Dartmouth College. Prior to becoming an academic, she was counsel to the New York City Board of Correction and was an associate at Cahill, Gordon, and Reindel.