Sterling Stuckey
P. Sterling Stuckey was an American professor of history, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside, specializing in American slavery, the arts and history, and Afro-American intellectual and cultural history.Biography
Stuckey earned his Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University 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 University of Minnesota in 1970–71, a Visiting Research Fellow at UCLA in 1975-76, an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, in 1980–81, a Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in 1987–88; and a Fellow at the Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, in 1991–92. He was with the University of California, Riverside 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.Books
