The American Academy of Arts and Sciences named University Professor Henry Louis âSkipâ Gates, Jr. a recipient of its Don M. Randel Award for Humanistic Studies on Wednesday, making him the seventh honoree since the awardâs inception in 1975.
The Don M. Randel Award was established to recognize intellectuals for âsuperior humanistic scholarship,â according to the Academyâs website. Previous recipients include University of Chicago Law School professor Martha C. Nussbaum and Harvard English professor emerita Helen H. Vendler, who is also a University Professor.
The Academy plans to honor Gates with an in-person ceremony in Cambridge this fall, virus-permitting.