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Earl Lewis is the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Public Policy at the University of Michigan and the founding director of the U-M Center for Social Solutions. From March 2013 to March 2018, he served as president of The Mellon Foundation. An author and social historian, he is past president of the Organization of American Historians. He has held faculty and administrative appointments at Michigan (1989–2004) and the University of California, Berkeley (1984–1989). From 2004–2012, he served as Emory University’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies. A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Mr. Lewis earned an undergraduate degree in history and psychology from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, with honors, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota. In addition to service on a number of nonprofit and governmental boards, he is the former director of 2U and former chair of the board of Regents at Concordia College-Moorhead. He currently serves as a trustee and chair of the board of ETS, a trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation, secretary of the board of trustees of the American Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ of Arts and Sciences, and director of the Capital Group/American Funds. Most recently he was selected as a Fellow of the American Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ of Political and Social Sciences (2022) and was awarded the National Humanities Medal (2023) by President Biden.