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 African- American professor of history, and a Distinguished

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at the

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(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''.

Biography

Stuckey earned his Ph.D. in history from

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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

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in 1970–71, a visiting research fellow at

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in 1975-76, an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the

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, Stanford, in 1980–81, a senior fellow at the

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

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, 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'' 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 20th-century American historians American social historians African-American historians Historians of African Americans Historians of slavery Cultural historians Black studies scholars University of California, Riverside faculty Northwestern University faculty Northwestern University alumni 1932 births 2018 deaths