11 Facts About Gary Kates

Gary R Kates was born on November 9,1952 and is an American historian who specializes in the European Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

Gary Kates is the H Russell Smith Foundation Professor of History at Pomona College.

Gary Kates previously served as the dean of the college from 2001 to 2009.

Gary Kates enrolled at Pitzer College in 1970 as part of the college's first class to include men.

Gary Kates initially intended to become a rabbi or a lawyer, but was influenced by professors to pursue history.

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In 1980, Kates became a professor of history at Trinity University in Texas, where he taught for 20 years.

Gary Kates published a book on the Chevalier d'Eon, an 18th-century French diplomat who grew up as a man but subsequently lived as a woman, and became Trinity's interim dean of arts and humanities.

Gary Kates taught one course per semester, an atypical practice for the position.

Gary Kates regularly teaches a first-year critical inquiry seminar on the European Enlightenment.

Gary Kates asks students in his courses to use his first name.

In 1999, Gary Kates received the American Historical Association's Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award.