Claude Clegg (full name: Claude Andrew Clegg III) is a historian who specializes in the history of the

African diaspora The African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from List of ethnic groups of Africa, people from Africa. The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the native West Africa, West and Central Africans who were ...

in the Americas. He is currently the Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public university, public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolli ...

, with a joint appointment in African, African American, and Diaspora Studies.

Education

Clegg holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a PhD from the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

Works

Clegg has written several books, including ''The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama'', ''An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad'', ''Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South'', and ''The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia''.

Selected bibliography

* ''The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama'', Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021, * ''An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad'', New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. Reprinted by the University of North Carolina Press, 2014, . * ''The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia'', Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, . * ''Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South'', Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010, .

Sources

Faculty bio page
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clegg, Claude University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Year of birth missing (living people) American male non-fiction writers