Thomas C. Holt

Thomas C. Holt is James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago; he has produced a number of works on the people and descendants of the African Diaspora.

Particularly notable among his publications are: "The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938," Johns Hopkins University Press in 1992, which won the Elsa Goveia Prize awarded by the Association of Caribbean Historians. Holt was awarded the Southern Historical Association's Charles S. Sydnor Prize for his first book, "Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction," University of Illinois Press. Holt's Nathan I. Huggins Lectures [http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/news_events/lecture_series.html] Harvard University Press in 2000 as "The Problem of Race in the 21st Century". Among his other works, he co-wrote "Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies," with Rebecca J. Scott and Frederick Cooper.

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 [http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142703/k.787E/Fellows_List__August_1990.htm] . In 1994, President Bill Clinton named Holt to the National Council on Humanities. [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/940818/holt.shtml] He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 [http://www.amacad.org/members/new2003list.aspx] .

Holt previously taught at Howard University, Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan.

Thomas C. Holt is a Citigroup Fellow at the "American Academy in Berlin", Germany, for Fall 2008.

External links

* [http://history.uchicago.edu/faculty/holt.html Faculty Profile] on the University of Chicago's website.
* [http://www.thomascholt.com/index2.html Mr Holt's Webpage]
* [http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_History/THolt.htm Presidential Address] at the American Historical Association