Jeffrey C. Stewart

Jeffrey Conrad Stewart (born 1950 in Chicago) is an American Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 
He won the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book "", described as "a panoramic view of the personal trials and artistic triumphs of the father of the Harlem Renaissance and the movement he inspired."
Career.
Stewart founded Jeffrey's Jazz Coffeehouse in 2015. He coordinates jazz performances in Isla Vista, the local community adjacent to UC Santa Barbara's campus, in conjunction with his History of Jazz course. In 2019 UC Santa Barbara alumni declared him an honorary alumnus as they recognized his achievements, notably his comprehensive biography of Alain Locke.
Stewart has been 
Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Terra Foundation’s affiliate in Giverny, France;
Residential Fellow at the Charles Warren Center in American History, (Harvard);
Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute (Harvard);
curator of exhibition "To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss" at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery;
curator "Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen" at Rutgers University;
and curator of conference entitled "North Hall 50 Years After: A Black Vision of Change" at UC Santa Barbara for the weekend of October 12–14, 2018.