Nell Irvin Painter

Nell Irvin Painter ( born August 2, 1942 in Houston, Texas) is an American historian, painter and university teacher who was known primarily for their reference books on the history of African Americans.

Life

The daughter of a chemist initially studied anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Anthropology ) from. A subsequent post-graduate studies on the history of Africa at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA), she finished in 1967 with a Master of Arts (MA African History). Finally, she acquired a 1974 Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D.) in History of America at Harvard University.

Subsequently, she was appointed in 1974 as Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1980, she accepted an appointment as a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC ) and taught there until 1988. During this time she received in 1982 and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

In 1988 she accepted a position as a professor of history at Princeton University, where she finally in 1991 as professor took over the chair of American history and taught there until her retirement in 2004. At the same time from 1997 to 2000, Director of the Program for African American Studies at Princeton University.

In addition, Nell Painter engaged in numerous historical institutions and, among other things, in 2007 president of the Southern Historical Association, and from 2007 to 2008 president of the Organization of American Historians. She is also a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Antiquarian Society, American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, American Studies Association, Society of American Historians, the Social Science Research Council and the Association of Black Women Historians.

Is Nell Painter, a member of the Democratic Party, also supported the presidential candidacies of Bill Bradley (1988) and Barack Obama in 2008.

In addition, she has devoted herself in recent years increasingly to painting, Warhol created many paintings such as the series Plantains or Self Portrait ( 2010)

Publications

In addition to teaching, she wrote numerous technical books dealing with the history of African Americans as well as historical figures of African-American motion as Sojourner Truth, or the abolitionist David Walker. Among her best-known books include:

  • Exodus Marketers: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction (1976 )
  • The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South (1979 )
  • Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol (1996 )
  • Southern History Across the Color Line (2002)
  • Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present (2005)
  • The History of White People (2010)

External links and sources

  • Personal homepage
  • Literature by and about Nell Irvin Painter in the catalog that German national library
  • Nell Irvin Painter in the Notable Names Database (English)
  • Historian
  • Anthropologist
  • University teachers ( University of Pennsylvania )
  • University teachers ( Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
  • University teachers ( Princeton University)
  • Author
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( 21st century)
  • Literature (United States)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Nonfiction author
  • Americans
  • Born in 1942
  • Woman
  • Member of the American Historical Association
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