Annette Gordon-Reed, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Annette Gordon-Reed

American historian

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1958

Place of Birth: Livingston, Texas, United States

Profession: writer, historian, university teacher, legal historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Annette Gordon-Reed (born November 19, 1958) is an American historian and law professor.
She is currently the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard University, where she is also the Carol K.
Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a professor of history in the university's Faculty of Arts & Sciences.
Gordon-Reed is noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson regarding his relationship with Sally Hemings and her children.
She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History and the National Book Award for Nonfiction and 15 other prizes in 2009 for her work on the Hemings family of Monticello.
In 2010, she received the National Humanities Medal and a MacArthur Fellowship also known as the MacArthur "Genius Award." Since 2018, she has served as a trustee of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC.
She was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.