Earl Lewis

Earl Lewis, an American social historian, is president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present, Defending Diversity: Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan, Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White, and To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans.