John Stauffer (professor)

John Stauffer is Professor of English, American Studies, and African American Studies at Harvard University.[1] He writes and lectures on the Civil War era, antislavery, social protest movements, and photography.

For persons of a similar name, see John Stauffer (disambiguation).
John Stauffer
Museum of African American History Director Beverly Morgan-Welch with John Stauffer in 2014
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University
Scientific career
FieldsEnglish, American Studies, African American Studies
InstitutionsHarvard University

Education and career

Stauffer received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1999, began teaching at Harvard University that year, and was tenured in 2004.[2] He was the Chair of History and Literature and Professor of English and African and African American Studies in 2013, Chair of the History of American Civilization and Professor of English and African and African American Studies from 2006-2012, and Professor of English, History of American Civilization, and African and African American Studies from 2004-2006.[3] He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, Deborah Cunningham, and their two children, Erik and Nicholas.[4]

He is the author and editor of eleven books, including two books that were briefly national bestsellers: GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln (2008), which won the Iowa Author Award and a Boston Authors Club Award[5] and has been translated into Mandarin, Arabic, and Korean;[6] and State of Jones (2009), co-authored with Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins.[7] His first book, The Black Hearts of Men (2002), won the Frederick Douglass Prize[8] and Avery Craven Book Prize,[9] and was the Lincoln Prize runner-up.

His most recent books are The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song that Marches On (2013), co-authored with Benjamin Soskis,[10] which was a Lincoln Prize finalist[11] and a Best Book of 2013 from Civil War Memory and Moore to the Point;[12] and Sally Mann, Southern Landscape (2014).[13] Stauffer's essays and reviews have appeared in Time, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, The New Republic, Raritan,[14] and numerous scholarly journals and books. He has lectured in Europe and Asia for the State Department's International Information Programs.[15] In 2009, Harvard University named him the Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for "achievements and scholarly eminence in the fields of literature, history, or art."[16]

Stauffer appeared in the PBS documentary The Abolitionists and was an advisor for the film.[17] He was also a consultant for the PBS documentaries The African American Express: Many Rivers to Cross (2013) and God in America (2010).[18] He was also a consultant to the 2012-2014 exhibition WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY and contributed an essay to the exhibition catalogue.[19]

Awards
  • 2013: Lincoln Prize finalist for The Battle Hymn of the Republic
  • 2013: Best Books of 2013 for The Battle Hymn of the Republic: Civil War Memory and Moore to the Point
  • 2010: Bancroft Prize Juror (one of three), Columbia University
  • 2009-10: Walter Channing Cabot Fellow, Harvard University, for “achievements and scholarly eminence in the fields of literature, history or art.”
  • 2009: Purdue University, College of Liberal Arts, Distinguished Alumni Award
  • 2009: Iowa Author Award (for GIANTS)
  • 2009: Boston Authors Club Award: “Highly Recommended” (3rd Place) (for GIANTS)
  • 2008: Association of American University Presses (AAUP) “must have” selection for Public and Secondary School Libraries (for The Problem of Evil, with Steven Mintz)
  • 2007: Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize Nomination[20]
  • 2005: Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award[21]
  • 2005: Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, runner-up for the best essay (Meteor of War: The John Brown Story, “Introduction,” with Zoe Trodd).
  • 2003: Avery O. Craven Award for the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War, or the era of Reconstruction, from the Organization of American Historians (for The Black Hearts of Men)
  • 2003: Lincoln Prize, Second Place Winner, for the best book on Lincoln or theCivil War era, from the Gettysburg Institute (for The Black Hearts of Men)
  • 2003: Magill’s Literary Annual award, for The Black Hearts of Men
  • 2002: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Co-Winner, for the best book on slavery, resistance, or abolition, from the Gilder Lehrman Institute (for The Black Hearts of Men)
  • 2002: Jan Thaddeus Teaching Prize, History and Literature, Harvard University
  • 2000: Dixon Ryan Fox Prize finalist, for the best book-length manuscript on New York State, New York State Historical Association, 2000
  • 1999: Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize recipient for the best dissertation in American Studies, American Studies Association[22]
  • 1997-98: Teaching Prize Fellowship Nomination, Yale University

Publications

Books
  • Southern Landscape, photographs by Sally Mann, “Introduction and Reflections” by John Stauffer (Brewster, Mass.: 21st Editions, 2013)
  • The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches On, co-authored with Benjamin Soskis (New York: Oxford University Press, June 2013).

Lincoln Prize Finalist, 2013: For best book on the Civil War era. Best Books of 2013, Civil War Memory: “Best Union Study” Best Books of 2013, Moore to the Point Best Books of 2013, Civil War Monitor

  • The Abolitionist Imagination, by Andrew Delbanco with commentaries by John Stauffer, Manisha Sinha, Darryl Pinckney, and Wilfred M. McClay (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012)
  • The State of Jones, co-authored with Sally Jenkins (New York: Doubleday, 2009).

New York Times bestseller (nonfiction) Over 30,000 hardcover copies sold Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by Doubleday.

  • GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln (New York: TWELVE/Hachette Book Group, 2008). Published November 3, 2008.

Iowa Author Award 2009 Boston Authors Club 2009 award: “highly recommended.” Progressive Book Club featured selection. History Book Club featured selection. Boston Globe bestseller (nonfiction) Amazon.com bestseller Reviewed in over 100 newspapers and magazines Over 30,000 hardcover copies sold Korean, Mandarin, and Arabic translations

  • The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002).

Co-Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Winner of the Avery Craven Book Award. Lincoln Prize 2nd Place Winner. Magill’s Literary Annual award for “best serious literature” in 2002. Full-page review in The New York Times Book Review.

Essays
  • “Book Review: ‘The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation’ by David Brion Davis,” The Wall Street Journal, Bookshelf, January 31, 2014:

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304691904579347011600473546-lMyQjAxMTA0MDAwNDEwNDQyWj

Upcoming publications
  • Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition, co-edited with Robert S. Levine (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014).[24]
  • Picturing Frederick Douglass: The Most Photographed American of the Nineteenth Century, co-edited with Zoe Trodd and Marie-Celeste Bernier (New York: W.W. Norton, 2015).[25]
  • Charles Sumner: A Cultural Biography, co-authored with Sally Jenkins. (New York: Doubleday, 2016).

References
  1. "John Stauffer/Professor of English and of African and African American Studies". Harvard University Department of English.
  2. "English Professor Receives Tenure". The Crimson.
  3. Harvard University, John Stauffer/Professor of English and of African and African American Studies"
  4. "About John Stauffer". John Stauffer Official Website.
  5. "Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln (2008)". Harvard University Publications.
  6. Harvard University, John Stauffer/Professor of English and of African and African American Studies"
  7. "Rebel Rebel: Book Review - 'The State of Jones'". New York Times.
  8. "JBOOKS ON SLAVE TRADE AND RADICAL ABOLITIONISTS TO SHARE $25,000 FREDERICK DOUGLASS PRIZE FOR BEST WORK ON SLAVERY". The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition. Archived from the original on 2013-01-31.
  9. "Avery O. Craven Award Winners". Organization of American Historians.
  10. "JAuthor Interview with John Stauffer and Benjamin Soskis". Religion in America.
  11. "2014 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Recognizes Guelzo, Johnson and Spielberg". News at Gettysburg.
  12. "Best of 2013". Civil War Memory.
  13. "5/16: Sally Mann". 21st Editions: The Art of the Book.
  14. Harvard University, John Stauffer/Professor of English and of African and African American Studies"
  15. "John Stauffer". The New Press: Author Biography.
  16. "Six faculty named Cabot Fellows". Harvard Gazette.
  17. "Historians on "The Abolitionists"". PBS.
  18. "John Stauffer:IMDB". IMDb.
  19. "War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath". Yale University Press.
  20. "Extension School students and faculty are honored with prizes for outstanding work". Harvard Gazette.
  21. "Three honored with mentoring awards". Harvard Gazette.
  22. "ASA Awards and Prizes". American Studies Association.
  23. "Stunning War Photography Exhibition Opens at Annenberg!". Huffington Post.
  24. "Fellow: Robert S. Levine". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21.
  25. "Co-Authored Books". Celeste-Marie Bernier Official Site. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-05-29.
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