Dr. Nell Irvin Painter: The History of White People

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Noted historian Nell Irvin Painter is a professor emerita at Princeton and the author of numerous books, including Sojouner Truth, A Life, A Symbol; Standing at Armageddon; and Southern History Across the Color Line.

Education:

University of California, Berkeley, 1960-1962; 1963-1964, BA (honors) in Anthropology, 1964
University of Bordeaux, France, 1962-1963, French medieval history
University of Ghana, Institute of African Studies, 1965-1966
University of California, Los Angeles, 1966-1967, MA, African History, 1967
Harvard University, 1969-1974, Ph.D., American history

Employment:

Ghana Institute of Languages Lecturer in French, 1964-1965
Harvard University, Teaching Fellow, Afro-American Studies, 1969-1970; Teaching Fellow, History, 1972-1974
University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor of History, 1974-1977, Associate Professor of History, 1977-1980
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Professor of History, 1980-1988
Hunter College of the City University of New York, Russell Sage Visiting Professor of History, 1985-1986
Princeton University, Professor of History, 1988-1991; Acting Director, Program in Afro-American Studies, 1990-1991; Edwards Professor of American History, 1991-, Director, Program in African American Studies, 1997-2000

Fellowships and Honors:

Dean's List, University of California, Berkeley, 1960
Tower and Flame (upper division honor society), University of California, Berkeley, 1962-1964
Mortar Board, University of California, Berkeley, 1963-1964
Coretta Scott King Award, American Association of University Women, 1969-1970
Ford Foundation Fellow (for the writing of a dissertation in minority studies), 1971-1972
American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, 1976-1977
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Fellow, 1976-1977
Radcliffe/Bunting Institute Fellow, 1976-1977
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute (Harvard) Research Associate, 1977-1978
National Humanities Center Fellow, 1978-1979
Guggenheim Fellow, 1982-1983
Graduate Society Medal, Radcliffe College Alumnae, 1984
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 1985-1986
Candace Award, National Coalition of One Hundred Black Women, 1986
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow, 1988-1989
1989 Alumnus/a of the Year, Black Alumni of the University of California, Berkeley
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 1991
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1992-1993
Honorary Doctor of Letters, Wesleyan University, 26 May 1996
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Dartmouth College, 8 June 1997
Honorary Doctor of Letters, SUNY - New Paltz, 17 May 1998
Association of Black Princeton Alumni University Service Award, 1998
Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award (for graduate teaching), American Historical Association, January, 2000.
Honorary Doctor of letters, Yale University, 26 May 2003

Professional Memberships and Services:

American Academy of Political and Social Science, Executive Board, 2003-
American Antiquarian Society (elected): Councillor, 1995-1998)
American Council of Learned Societies: American Studies Advisory Committee, 1982-1987
American Historical Association: Program Committee, 1976-1978; J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship; Committee, 1978-1979; Beveridge and Dunning Prizes Committee, 1985-1987; Council, 1991-1994.
American Studies Association: International Committee, 1983-1988; National Council, 1989-1992; Advisory Council, 1991-1992.
Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History: Program Committee, 1976
Association of Black Women Historians: Research Committee, 1980-1996; National Director, 1982-1984; Chair, Brown Publication Prize Committee, 1983-1986, 1988-1991
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians: Program Committee, 1976, Co-Chair, Program Committee, 1996-1999
Institute for Southern Studies: Executive Committee, 1987-1988
National Book Foundation: Chair, Nonfiction Jury, 1994; Member, Nonfiction Jury, 1999
Organization of American Historians: Committee on the Status Of Women, 1975-1977; Program Committee, 1977-1979, 1983-1985, 1994-1996; Frederick Jackson Turner Award Committee, 1983; Executive Board, 1984-1987; Chair, Ad-hoc Committee on Minority Historians, 1985-1987; Chair, Avery O. Craven Award, 1994-1995.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Co-chair Scholars-in-Residence Program, 1993-1998
Social Science Research Council: Committee on Social Science Personnel, 1977-1978
Society of American Historians (elected): Chair, Francis Parkman Prize Committee, 1993-1994, Executive Board, 2001-
Southern Historical Association: Chair, Syndor Prize Committee, 1991-1992; National Council, 1994-1997
Southern Regional Council: Lillian Smith Book Prize Committee, 1986; Executive Council, 1987
Phi Beta Kappa: Member of Ralph Waldo Emerson book prize committee, 1998-2001
PEN American Center: New York Chapter

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[slytown]

Nell Irvin Painter is so fantastic. Contributed so much to American and human history. Hope she continues to do so.