Nell Irvin Painter

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Nell Irvin Painter (born August 2, 1942 in Houston , Texas ) is an American historian , painter and university professor , who was best known for her specialist books on the history of African American .

Life

The daughter of a chemist first studied anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts ( BA Anthropology ). She completed a subsequent postgraduate degree in African history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1967 with a Master of Arts ( MA African History ). Finally, in 1974, she earned a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) in American history from Harvard University .

She was then appointed professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974. In 1980 she accepted a professorship in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and taught there until 1988. During this time, she received a Guggenheim scholarship in 1982 .

In 1988 she accepted a position as professor of history at Princeton University , where she finally took over the chair of American history in 1991 and taught there until her retirement in 2004. She was also the director of the African American Studies program at Princeton University from 1997 to 2000.

In addition, Nell Painter was involved in numerous historical institutions and was, among other things, President of the Southern Historical Association in 2007 and President of the Organization of American Historians from 2007 to 2008 . 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 , Social Science Research Council, and the Association of Black Women Historians . She has also been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2007 .

Democratic Party member Nell Painter also endorsed the presidential nominations of Bill Bradley (1988) and Barack Obama in 2008.

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

Publications

In addition to her teaching activities, she has written numerous specialist books dealing with the history of Afro-Americans as well as with historical figures of the Afro-American movement such as Sojourner Truth or the abolitionist David Walker . Her best-known publications include:

  • Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction (1976)
  • The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South (1979)
  • Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919 (1987)
  • 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)

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personal data
SURNAME Painter, Nell Irvin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian, anthropologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas