Thomas C. Holt

This article is about the U.S. historian. For the British writer Thomas Charles Louis Holt, see Tom Holt.
For other people named Thomas Holt, see Thomas Holt (disambiguation).
Thomas C. Holt
BornNovember 30, 1942
Academic work
Disciplinehistory
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Main interestsAfrican diaspora

Thomas Cleveland Holt (born November 30, 1942) is an American historian, who is the James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago. He has produced a number of works on the people and descendants of the African Diaspora. He served as president of the American Historical Association in 1994.[1][2]

He taught at Howard University, Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan.[3] He was born in Danville, Virginia.[4] He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2016.[5]

  1. ^ Thomas C. Holt biography Archived 2016-03-15 at the Wayback Machine, The University of Chicago.
  2. ^ Thomas C. Holt, Department of History, The University of Chicago.
  3. ^ Thomas C. Holt. Archived July 2, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Holt, Thomas Cleveland", Reports of the President and of the Treasurer, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1988, p. 53.
  5. ^ "Newly Elected - April 2016", American Philosophical Society.