P. Sterling Stuckey (March 2, 1932 – August 15, 2018)[1][2] was an African-American professor of history, and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), specializing in American slavery, the arts and history, and Afro-American intellectual and cultural history.
[3][4] Stuckey earned his Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University in 1972.
He was Hill Foundation Visiting Research Professor at the University of Minnesota in 1970–71, a visiting research fellow at UCLA in 1975-76, an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, in 1980–81, a senior fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in 1987–88; and a fellow at the Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, in 1991–92.
He was with the University of California, Riverside (UCR) since 1989,[4][3] retiring in 2004.
[2] On the occasion of the 25th anniversary edition of his fundamental book Slave Culture, The Journal of African American History published a 25-page interview with Stuckey.