Jeffrey Conrad Stewart (born 1950 in Chicago) is an American Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
[1] He won the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his book The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, described as "a panoramic view of the personal trials and artistic triumphs of the father of the Harlem Renaissance and the movement he inspired".
[7] In 2019 UC Santa Barbara alumni declared him an honorary alumnus as they recognized his achievements, notably his comprehensive biography of Alain LeRoy Locke.
[8] 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 Research Institute (Harvard); curator of exhibition To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery; curator of 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.