Jeffrey C. Stewart

Jeffrey C. Stewart is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2008-2016. His book The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke won several awards, including the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction, the 2019 James A. Rawley Prize for History from the Organization of American Historians and the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. He also is author of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History. Stewart has taught at Yale University, UCLA, Tufts University, and Howard University, among others. While a law professor at George Mason University, he served as director of the African American Studies Program. He has held numerous fellowships and visiting professorships, among which are the W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship and Charles Warren Fellowship at Harvard University.