Rate Professor Thomas Holt

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in History, Yale University, 1973; B.A., Howard University.

Research Interests: African American history, Caribbean history, and race relations.

Appointments: James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History, University of Chicago (1988–present).

Awards: MacArthur Fellowship (1990).

Publications:

• The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832–1938 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)