# Annette Gordon-Reed Carl M. Loeb University Professor Professor of History ![Annette Gordon-Reed](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/history/files/gordon-reed_1.jpg?itok=DtMbIeTQ) location\_on Harvard Law School, Griswold Hall 405, Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [617-384-0787](tel:617-384-0787) email laptop\_windows [Harvard Law School Profile](http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10329/Gordon-Reed) Administrative Assistant: Kayla Butler **Annette Gordon-Reed** is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. Gordon-Reed won sixteen book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008, for *The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family* (W.W. Norton, 2008). In addition to articles and reviews, her other works include *Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy* (UVA Press, 1997), *Vernon Can Read! A Memoir*, a collaboration with Vernon Jordan (PublicAffairs, 2001), *Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History* (Oxford University Press, 2002), a volume of essays that she edited, *Andrew Johnson* (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2010) and, with Peter S. Onuf, *“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination* (Liveright Publishing, 2016). Her most recent book is *On Juneteenth* (Liveright Publishing, 2021). Gordon-Reed was the Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford (Queens College) 2014-2015. Between 2010 and 2015, she was the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She was the 2018-2019 President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. She is the current President of the Ames Foundation. A selected list of her honors includes a fellowship from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim Fellowship in the humanities, a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Award, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, the George Washington Book Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Gordon-Reed served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College from 2010 to 2018. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and was a member of the Academy’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2019, she was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. - ## Faculty [Core Faculty](/faculty/core-faculty) - ## Last Initial (Faculty) [G](/first-letter-last-name/g) - ## Geographic Region [United States](/region-study/united-states) - ## Theme and Methodology [Early America](/theme/early-america) [Law](/theme/law) [Politics](/theme/politics) [Slavery](/theme/slavery) - ## Time Period [17th & 18th Centuries](/time-period/17th-18th-centuries) [19th Century](/time-period/19th-century)