P. Sterling Stuckey (March 2, 1932 – August 15, 2018)Walter Hudson
"Sterling Stuckey, Renowned Historian, Dies"
''Diverse Issues in Higher Education'', August 17, 2018. was an American professor of history, Distinguished

Professor Emeritus ''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person who has been "permitted to retain as an honorary title ...

at the

University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban distr ...

(UCR), specializing in American slavery, the arts and history, and Afro-American intellectual and cultural history.P. Sterling Stuckey
a profile at the UCRCorey Arvin
"P. Sterling Stuckey – Understanding Slave Culture: Looking Back to Move Forward"
interview, 2013, ''

The Voice The Voice may refer to: Fictional entities * The Voice or Presence, a fictional representation of God in DC Comics * The Voice (''Dune''), a fictional ability in the ''Dune'' universe * The Voice, a character in the American TV series ''Cleo ...

''.

Biography

Stuckey earned his Ph.D. in history from

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

in 1972. He was appointed Associate Professor at Northwestern in 1971 and Full Professor in 1977. He was Hill Foundation Visiting Research Professor at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...

in 1970–71, a Visiting Research Fellow at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

in 1975-76, an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is an interdisciplinary research lab at Stanford University that offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars studying "the five core social and ...

, Stanford, in 1980–81, a Senior Fellow at the

Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Founded ...

in 1987–88; and a Fellow at the Humanities Research Institute,

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and p ...

, in 1991–92. He was with the

(UCR) since 1989, retiring in 2004. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary edition of his fundamental book ''Slave Culture'', ''

The Journal of African American History ''The Journal of African American History'', formerly ''The Journal of Negro History'' (1916–2001), is a quarterly academic journal covering African-American life and history. It was founded in 1916 by Carter G. Woodson. The journal is owned and ...

'' published a 25-page interview with Stuckey.David Roediger, "The Making of a Historian: Interview with Sterling Stuckey", ''Journal of African American History'', Vol. 99, No. 1–2, pp. 89–105;

Books

*''Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory & the Foundations of Black America'', 1987, ; 2nd edition 2013 *''Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in History'', 1994 *''African Culture and Melville's Art: The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick'', 2011 *(with Linda Kerrigan Salvucci) ''Call to Freedom: Beginnings to 1877'', 2003, *(with Linda Kerrigan Salvucci) ''Call to Freedom: Beginnings to 1914'' (3rd edition) *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stuckley, P. Sterling 1932 births 2018 deaths American historians