In his first year at Harvard, as chairman of Afro-American studies, Henry Louis (Skip) Gates Jr. left a largely positive impression as he built up the department’s faculty and its reputation. “African-American studies and African-American literary studies are unimaginable in the United States without Skip Gates,” Houston A. Baker, president of the Modern Language Association, told The Chronicle. “First time I’ve ever had a real job,” Mr. Gates joked. He kept this one until 2006, when he stepped down to do more teaching and research. As his fame has spread, he has stayed on at Harvard, as director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.
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