Annette Gordon-Reed is a historian and legal scholar who holds Harvard's Carl M. Loeb University Professorship, the university's highest faculty distinction, with appointments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Law School. Her scholarship reexamined the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings and the family Hemings founded at Monticello. She won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, the first Black American historian to receive that award, along with the 2008 National Book Award. Before joining Harvard she taught at New York Law School and Rutgers University-Newark.