Author, Pulitzer Prize Winner & Professor, Harvard University
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Annette is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, author, and legal scholar renowned for her groundbreaking research on Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, slavery, and American history. She serves as the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School and Professor of History at Harvard University. Her acclaimed book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History, building on her influential earlier work, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. Gordon-Reed is also the author of Andrew Johnson and co-author of “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination. Her numerous honours include the National Humanities Medal, National Book Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowship, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, reflecting her significant impact on historical scholarship and public understanding of America’s past.
