Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a millionaire American historian, journalist, and literary scholar. He has been called the "father of black cultural studies" for his contributions to scholarship on African-American history and culture. Gates' father was a professor of black history at Harvard University, and his mother was a nurse who worked with black patients during segregationist Alabama's "peckerwood pine" tree harvest program. The family moved often while Henry Gates was growing up in Boston, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. from Harvard College in 1978 and an M.A. and Ph. D. from Harvard University in 1980 and 1983, respectively. He joined the faculty of Harvard University as a lecturer in 1985 and was promoted to full professor in 1994. He has served as the Frederick Douglass Professor of History and Culture since 2001. Gates has published several books including Black English: An Introduction (Harvard University Press, 2012), which won the 2013 John W. Crombie Prize from the American Association for the Study of Language, Literature and Culture. It was also named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, and other publications.