Sterling Stuckey
P. Sterling Stuckey (March 2, 1932 – August 15, 2018)[1][2] was an African-American professor of history, and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), specializing in American slavery, the arts and history, and Afro-American intellectual and cultural history.[3][4]
Early life and education
Ples Sterling Stuckey Jr. was born to African-American parents in Memphis, Tennessee on March 2, 1932. His mother, Elma Earline Johnson Stuckey, was a schoolteacher, and his father, Ples Sterling Stuckey Sr. worked as a waiter at a major hotel in Memphis.[5] The family moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1945.[6]
Stuckey earned his Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University in Chicago in 1972.
Career
Stuckey was appointed associate professor at Northwestern in 1971, and became a full professor in 1977. He was Hill Foundation Visiting Research Professor at the University of Minnesota in 1970–71, a visiting research fellow at UCLA in 1975-76, an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, in 1980–81, a senior fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in 1987–88; and a fellow at the Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, in 1991–92.
Stuckey was a professor at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) from 1989[4][3] until he retired in 2004.[2]
To mark the 25th anniversary edition (in 2012) of his seminal book Slave Culture, The Journal of African American History published a 26-page interview with Stuckey by historian David Roediger.[6]
Books
- Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory & the Foundations of Black America, 1987, ISBN 0195042654; 2nd edition 2013
- Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in History, 1994
- (with Linda Kerrigan Salvucci) Call to Freedom: Beginnings to 1877, 2003, ISBN 0030654874
- (with Linda Kerrigan Salvucci) Call to Freedom: Beginnings to 1914 (3rd edition)
- Paul Boyer, Sterling Stuckey (2005). American Nation: In the Modern Era. Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.
- African Culture and Melville's Art: The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick, 2011
References
- ↑ "Sterling Stuckey", Legacy.com.
- 1 2 Walter Hudson, "Sterling Stuckey, Renowned Historian, Dies", Diverse Issues in Higher Education, August 17, 2018.
- 1 2 P. Sterling Stuckey, a profile at the UCR
- 1 2 Corey Arvin, "P. Sterling Stuckey – Understanding Slave Culture: Looking Back to Move Forward", interview, 2013, The Voice.
- ↑ Roberts, Sam. "Sterling Stuckey, 86, Dies; Charted African Culture in Slavery", The New York Times, Aug. 28, 2018
- 1 2 Roediger, David, "The Making of a Historian: Interview with Sterling Stuckey", Journal of African American History, Vol. 99, No. 1–2 (Winter-Spring 2014), pp. 89–105; JSTOR 10.5323/jafriamerhist.99.1-2.0089
- 20th-century American historians
- American social historians
- American cultural historians
- African-American historians
- Historians of African Americans
- African-American cultural history
- Historians of slavery
- Historians from California
- Historians from Chicago
- Black studies scholars
- 20th-century African-American academics
- University of California, Riverside faculty
- Northwestern University faculty
- Northwestern University alumni
- African-American people in California
- People from Memphis, Tennessee
- 1932 births
- 2018 deaths