| Nell Irvin Painter AKA Nell Irvin Born: 2-Aug-1942
Birthplace: Houston, TX
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Creating Black Americans Father: Frank Edward Irvin (chemist)
Mother: Dona L. McGruder
Brother: Frank, Jr. (d. tonsillectomy complication)
Husband: Colin Painter (m. 1965, div. 1966)
Husband: Glenn R. Shafer (business professor, m. 1989)
University: BA Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley (1964)
University: MA African History, University of California at Los Angeles (1967)
University: PhD American History, Harvard University (1974)
Professor: History, University of Pennsylvania (1974-80)
Professor: History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1980-88)
Professor: History, Princeton University (1988-91)
Professor: American History, Princeton University (1991-2004)
Administrator: Director, African-American Studies, Princeton University (1997-2000)
American Academy of Political and Social Science
American Antiquarian Society
American Council of Learned Societies
American Historical Association
American Studies Association
Association of Black Women Historians
Bill Bradley for President
MoveOn.org
Obama for America
Obama Victory Fund 2012
Organization of American Historians President (2007-08)
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Social Science Research Council
Society of American Historians
Southern Historical Association President (2007)
Guggenheim Fellowship 1982
Official Website:
http://www.nellpainter.com/
Author of books:
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)
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