Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. Professor Gordon-Reed has won 16 book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family  (2008). She is the author of six books, and editor of two. She was the Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford (Queen’s College) 2014-2015, and was appointed an Honorary Fellow at Queen’s in 2021. She also served as the 2018-2019 President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and is currently president of the Ames Foundation. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, and the National Humanities Medal. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the British Academy.

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Applications for this event are open until 11:59 PM on Monday, April 10, and are limited to students in the Class of 2026. Ten Harvard College first-year students will be selected to attend each dinner, and students must submit an application to be considered.

If you have questions about this event or the Uncommon Fare Program, please contact Garry Mitchell at firstyearfacstu@fas.harvard.edu.