11 Facts About Kates Gary

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

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

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

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

Kates Gary 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.

Kates Gary 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.

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

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

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

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