David Levering Lewis
David Levering Lewis | |
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| Born | May 25, 1936 Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Fisk University Columbia University London School of Economics |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize (1994, 2001) National Humanities Medal 2009 Bancroft Prize Francis Parkman Prize |
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| Fields | History |
| Institutions | New York University |
| Website | NYU faculty page |
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David Levering Lewis (born May 25, 1936) is an American historian, a Julius Silver University Professor, and professor emeritus of history at
The author of eight books and editor of two more, Lewis concentrates on comparative history with special focus on twentieth-century United States social history and
Early life and education
Lewis was born in 1936 in
While the family lived in Little Rock, David Lewis attended parochial school and attended Wilberforce Preparatory School and Xenia High School after his father became Dean of the Theological School at Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio.
The family moved to
Lewis briefly attended the University of Michigan Law School but left to attend Columbia University, where he earned his M.A. in history in 1959. He went to the London School of Economics for his doctorate, earning his Ph.D. in 1962 in modern European and French history.[3][4]
In 1961–1962, Lewis served in the
Personal life
Lewis has three adult children (Eric, Allison, and Jason) from his first marriage.
Academic career
In 1963, Lewis lectured at the
In 1985, Lewis joined Rutgers University as the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History, where he wrote his Pulitzer Prize-winning two volume-biography of W. E. B. Du Bois and finished writing The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa during his 18-year tenure.
In spring semester 2001, Lewis served as distinguished visiting professor in Harvard's history department.
In 2003, Lewis was appointed as the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University.
He has received fellowships from the
Professional career
Lewis is the author of the first academic biography of
In addition to the two Pulitzer Prizes for his volumes on W. E. B. Du Bois, published in 1994 and 2001,[6][7][8] Lewis won the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize[9] in 1994 for his first volume. In 2001 he won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award[10] for his second volume on Du Bois, published that year.
He is a former trustee of the National Humanities Center, former commissioner of the National Portrait Gallery, and a former senator of Phi Beta Kappa.
Lewis appeared as a historical expert in the 1999 film
He was president of the Society of American Historians in 2002,[11] and is a board member of the magazine The Crisis, published by the NAACP. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was an Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, in spring 2008.
President Barack Obama awarded him the 2009 National Humanities Medal[12] at the White House on February 25, 2010. Lewis delivered the inaugural convocation lecture at New York University Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates on September 19, 2010.
Honorary degrees
- Doctorate of Humane Letters from Harvard University in 2023[13]
- Doctor of Humane Letters from University of the District of Columbia in 2016[14]
- Doctorate of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, from Columbia University in 2015[15]
- Honorary Degree from Northwestern University in 2010[16]
- Honorary Degree from New School Universityin 2005[17]
- Doctor of Humane Letters from Bates College in 2004[18]
- Doctor of Humane Letters from Marymount Manhattan College in 2004[19]
- Doctor of Letters from Emory University in 2003[20]
- Doctor of Letters from Wheaton College in 2003[21]
- Honorary Doctorate from Bard College in 2002[22]
- Honorary Doctorate from Teachers College at Columbia University in 2002[23]
- Honorary Doctorate from Lehman College in 1995[24]
Books
- King: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 1970. ISBN 978-0-252-00680-7.; Univ. of Illinois Press, 1979.
- Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair, William Morrow, 1974.
- District of Columbia: A Bicentennial History, W.W. Norton, 1976.
- The Race for Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in The Scramble for Africa. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987 ISBN 1-55584-058-2
- David L. Lewis (ed.) The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, Viking, 1994, ISBN 9780670845101
- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (15 February 1995). David Levering Lewis (ed.). W. E. B. Du Bois: A Reader. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-0-8050-3264-2.
- When Harlem Was in Vogue New York: Knopf, 1981, ISBN 9780394495729
- ISBN 978-1-4668-4151-2. Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and winner also of the Bancroft and Parkman prizes.
- ISBN 978-0-8050-6813-9. Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
- The Race to Fashoda. Henry Holt. 1 December 2001. ISBN 978-0-8050-7119-1.
- (with Deborah Willis) A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois & African American Portraits of Progress, HarperCollins, 2003.
- God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215, (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2008)
- W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography. Henry Holt and Company. 4 August 2009. ISBN 978-0-8050-8805-2.
- The Implausible Wendell Willkie: Leadership Ahead of Its Time in Walter Isaacson (ed.) Profiles in Leadership (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011)
- The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order. New York, NY: Liveright. 2018. ISBN 978-0-871-40457-2.
References
- Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "President".
- ^ "David Levering Lewis" Archived 2006-05-09 at the Wayback Machine, The History Makers
- ^ "David Levering Lewis", Organization of American History Archived February 15, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "CV David Levering Lewis" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-01. Retrieved 2006-05-10., Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University
- ^ "Biography". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ "W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963". Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ISSN 0027-8378. Archived from the originalon February 6, 2023. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
- ^ "1994 David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. DuBois (Henry Holt) | Society of American Historians".
- ^ "W.E.B. Du Bois".
- ^ "History | Society of American Historians".
- ^ "David Levering Lewis".
- ^ "David Levering Lewis Receives Honorary Doctorate of Laws | News | the Harvard Crimson".
- ^ "Conferral of Honorary Degree upon David Leverin Lewis, Ph.D." (PDF). Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ "Columbia to Award Honorary Degrees and University Medal for Excellence". 14 July 2023.
- ^ "Seven to Receive Honorary Degrees : Northwestern University Newscenter".
- ^ "NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY TO HOLD 69th COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY ON FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2005 AT 2:30 PM".
- ^ "Degree citation | 2004". 29 April 2010.
- ^ "Honorary Degree Recipients".
- ^ "Emory University News Release - levering".
- ^ "David Levering Lewis Speaks at Commencement". 16 February 2011.
- ^ "Honorary Degrees at Bard College".
- ^ "People in the News". Education Week. 29 May 2002.
- ^ "Degree citation | 2004". 29 April 2010.
External links
- "W.E.B. DuBois as a Historical Novelist" Audio recording: David Levering Lewis at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2009
- "Pulitzer Prize for Biography: David Levering Lewis", with Gwen Ifill, PBS Newshour, 23 April 2001
- Lewis On How Harlem Became A Place For African Americans, PBS WNET, New York
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Interview with Lewis, In Depth, 3 February 2008, C-SPAN
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