Thomas Cleveland Holt is James Westfall Thompson

James Westfall Thompson

James Westfall Thompson was an American historian specializing in the history of medieval and early modern Europe, particularly of the Holy Roman Empire and France...

 Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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; he has produced a number of works on the people and descendants of the African Diaspora

African diaspora

The African diaspora was the movement of Africans and their descendants to places throughout the world—predominantly to the Americas also to Europe, the Middle East and other places around the globe...

.

He taught at Howard University

Howard University

Howard University is a federally chartered, non-profit, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university located in Washington, D.C., United States...

, Harvard University

Harvard University

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, the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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, and the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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.

Awards

A past president of the American Historical Association

American Historical Association

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, Holt was a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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 and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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 from 1987 to 1988. Holt became a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 1990. In 1994, President Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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 named Holt to the National Council on Humanities. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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 in 2003.
Holt was a Citigroup Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin

American Academy in Berlin

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, Germany, for fall 2008.
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
  Johns Hopkins University Press
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  ) 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
  University of Illinois Press
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  ).
• "Nathan I. Huggins Lectures", The Problem of Race in the 21st Century (Harvard University Press
  Harvard University Press
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  ) 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 9780807848548.
• Children of Fire: a History of African Americans (Hill & Wang) 2010

External links

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