Jeffery Stewart

Alain Locke Institute, UC Santa Barbara

Jeffrey C. Stewart is the 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (Oxford University Press, 2018) also won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2018. He is the MacArthur Foundation Chair and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. Author of numerous articles, essays and books on African American Intellectual and Cultural History, Dr. Stewart is also a curator with two major exhibitions–To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC and Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen at the Zimmerli Museum of Art at Rutgers University. His most recent book is Beauty Born of Struggle: The Art of Black Washington published by Yale University Press in 2023.