Jeffrey C. Stewart is a Professor of Black Studies at the University of California at Santa
Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2008-2016. He has taught at Yale University,
UCLA, Tufts University, and Howard University, among others. While a law professor at
George Mason University, he served as director of the African American Studies Program. He
has held numerous fellowships and visiting professorships, among which are the W.E.B. Du Bois
Fellowship and Charles Warren Fellowship at Harvard University. The New Negro has won
several awards, including the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction, the 2019 James A.
Rawley Prize for History from the Organization of American Historians and the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. He also is author of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African
American History.
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