Jeffrey Stewart

Professor Stewart has spent his career studying issues of race and culture as they relate to art, history, literature, music, and philosophy. His most recent monograph, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally. The New Negro won the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Professor Stewart’s earlier books include 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History and Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen. He has been a Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the University of Rome III, a W.E.B. Du Bois and Charles Warren Fellow at Harvard University, and Lecturer at the Terra Foundation for American art in Giverny, France.