Thomas C.
Holt
Thomas Cleveland Holt (born November 30, 1942) is
an American historian, who is the James Westfall Thomas C. Holt
Thompson Professor of American and African Born November 30, 1942
American History at the University of Chicago. He has Academic work
produced a number of works on the people and
Discipline history
descendants of the African Diaspora. He served as
president of the American Historical Association in Institutions University of Chicago
1994.[1][2] Main interests African diaspora
He taught at Howard University, Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the
University of Michigan.[3] He was born in Danville, Virginia.[4] He was elected a Member of the
American Philosophical Society in 2016.[5]
Awards
In 1978 Holt was awarded the Southern Historical Association's Charles S. Sydnor Prize for his first
book, Black Over White.[6]
A past president of the American Historical Association, Holt was a Fellow of the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from 1987
to 1988. Holt became a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 1990.[7]
In 1994, President Bill Clinton named Holt to the National Council on Humanities.[8]
He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.[9]
He was a Citigroup Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, for Fall 2008.[10]
Works
The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832–1938 (http
s://[Link]/books?id=nI6vKvIR18cC&q=Thomas+Cleveland+Holt) (Johns
Hopkins University Press), 1992, winner of the Elsa Goveia Prize awarded by the
Association of Caribbean Historians.
Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction (http
s://[Link]/books?id=LIqiqdeHMscC&q=Thomas+Cleveland+Holt) (University of
Illinois Press).
"Nathan I. Huggins Lectures", The Problem of Race in the 21st Century (Harvard University
Press), 2000
With Frederick Cooper and Rebecca Jarvis Scott, Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race,
Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies ([Link]
rG1Q-3f5J4C&q=Thomas+Cleveland+Holt), UNC Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-8078-4854-8.
Children of Fire: a History of African Americans ([Link]
3f5J4C&q=Thomas+Cleveland+Holt) (Hill & Wang), 2010
The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights ([Link]
oks?id=x483zgEACAAJ) (Oxford University Press), 2021, ISBN 0197525822.
References
1. Thomas C. Holt biography ([Link] Archived ([Link]
[Link]/web/20160315171244/[Link] 2016-03-
15 at the Wayback Machine, The University of Chicago.
2. Thomas C. Holt ([Link] Department of
History, The University of Chicago.
3. Thomas C. Holt. ([Link] Archived ([Link]
rg/web/20070702063817/[Link] July 2, 2007, at the
Wayback Machine
4. "Holt, Thomas Cleveland" ([Link]
olt,+Thomas+Cleveland%22), Reports of the President and of the Treasurer, John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1988, p. 53.
5. "Newly Elected - April 2016" ([Link]
[Link]/members/electedApril2016), American Philosophical Society.
6. "Awards — The Charles S. Sydnor Award" ([Link] Archived
([Link] May
13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, The Southern Historical Association.
7. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Fellows List ([Link]
c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142703/k.787E/Fellows_List__August_1990.htm) Archived ([Link]
[Link]/web/20120307004157/[Link]
3/k.787E/Fellows_List__August_1990.htm) March 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
8. "Holt named to National Council on Humanities" ([Link]
html), University of Chicago Chronicle, Vol. 14, No. 2, August 18, 1994.
9. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Class of 2003 - Fellows ([Link]
members/[Link])
10. American Academy in Berlin, Citigroup Fellow Class of Fall 2008: Thomas Holt ([Link]
[Link]/home/alumni/detailansicht/person//fellow/thomas_holt/312/detail/)
External links
Faculty Profile ([Link]
ulty/[Link]) on the University of Chicago's website.
Presidential Address ([Link] at the American
Historical Association.
Guy Emerson Mount, "When Scholars Cry: Celebrating The Career Of Thomas C. Holt" (htt
p://[Link]/when-scholars-cry-celebrating-the-career-of-thomas-c-holt/), AAIHS.
Appearances ([Link] on C-SPAN
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