Paul Spickard

Paul Spickard
OccupationProfessor, Author
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard University (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
SubjectHistory, Ethnic Studies, Religious Studies, Critical Mixed Race Studies

Paul R. Spickard (born 1950) is an American historian and the author of several books on the subject of race and ethnicity, particularly multiracialism.[1][2] His work was formative in rearticulating and moving beyond a black-white paradigm of race and mixed-race relations in the U.S.[3]

Spickard grew up in a working class and Black neighborhood in Seattle.[4] He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and his undergraduate degree from Harvard University.[5] He served as the Director of Research at the Institute for Polynesian Studies in Honolulu[2] as well as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at BYU-Hawaii.[5] In 2013, Spickard was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians.[6] In 2011, Spickard co-founded the Journal for Critical Mixed Race Studies.[7] He currently teaches as a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara,[1] where he is also an affiliate faculty in Asian American Studies and Religious Studies.[8]

  1. ^ a b "Paul Spickard". UCSB Department of History. The Regents of the University of California. Archived from the original on November 3, 2013. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Jefferson's Blood". PBS Frontine: shows. WGBH educational foundation. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
  3. ^ Guevarra, Rudy P. (October 2011). "Introduction to the Special Issue". Journal of Asian American Studies. 14 (3). Johns Hopkins University Press: 323–329. doi:10.1353/jaas.2011.0036. S2CID 201746566. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
  4. ^ "Paul Spickard – Department of History, UC Santa Barbara".
  5. ^ a b "Paul R. Spickard" (PDF). American Historical Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 3, 2013. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
  6. ^ "Paul R. Spickard". The OAH Distinguished Leadership Program. The Organization of American Historians. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
  7. ^ http://criticalmixedracestudies.org/wordpress/conference/M [dead link]
  8. ^ "Talk Fleshes Out Skin-Tone Discrimination".