Jeffrey C. Stewart | |
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Born | Jeffrey Conrad Stewart 1950 (age 73–74) |
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Thesis | A Biography of Alain Locke (1979) |
Academic advisors | John W. Blassingame |
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Discipline | Black studies |
Institutions | University of California,Santa Barbara |
Notable works | The New Negro:The Life of Alain Locke (2018) |
Jeffrey Conrad Stewart (born 1950 in Chicago) is an American Professor of Black Studies at the University of California,Santa Barbara. [1] He won the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his book The New Negro:The Life of Alain Locke ,described as "a panoramic view of the personal trials and artistic triumphs of the father of the Harlem Renaissance and the movement he inspired". [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Stewart founded Jeffrey's Jazz Coffeehouse in 2015. He coordinates jazz performances in Isla Vista,the local community adjacent to UC Santa Barbara's campus,in conjunction with his History of Jazz course. [7] In 2019 UC Santa Barbara alumni declared him an honorary alumnus as they recognized his achievements,notably his comprehensive biography of Alain LeRoy Locke. [8]
Stewart has been Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Terra Foundation's affiliate in Giverny,France;Residential Fellow at the Charles Warren Center in American History (Harvard);Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute (Harvard);curator of exhibition To Color America:Portraits by Winold Reiss at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery;curator of Paul Robeson:Artist and Citizen at Rutgers University;and curator of conference entitled North Hall 50 Years After:A Black Vision of Change at UC Santa Barbara for the weekend of October 12–14,2018.
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