Thomas C. Holt

Thomas Cleveland Holt (born November 30, 1942) is James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago; he has produced a number of works on the people and descendants of the African Diaspora.^[1][2]

He taught at Howard University, Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan.^[3] He was born in Danville, Virginia.^[4]

Awards

A past president of the American Historical Association, Holt was a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from 1987 to 1988. Holt became a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 1990.^[5] In 1994, President Bill Clinton named Holt to the National Council on Humanities.^[6] He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.^[7] Holt was a Citigroup Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, for fall 2008.^[8] Holt was awarded the Southern Historical Association's Charles S. Sydnor Prize for his first book, Black Over White.

Works

• The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938, (Johns Hopkins University Press) in 1992, which won the Elsa Goveia Prize awarded by the Association of Caribbean Historians.
• Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction (University of Illinois Press).
• "Nathan I. Huggins Lectures", The Problem of Race in the 21st Century (Harvard University Press) 2000
• Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies, Authors Frederick Cooper, Thomas Cleveland Holt, Rebecca Jarvis Scott, UNC Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-8078-4854-8.
• Children of Fire: a History of African Americans (Hill & Wang) 2010

References

External links

• Faculty Profile on the University of Chicago's website.
• Presidential Address at the American Historical Association