David W. Blight

David W. Blight
David W. Blight at the 2019 National Book Festival
Born	David William Blight (1949-03-21) March 21, 1949 (age 75) Flint, Michigan, US
Spouse	Karin B. H. Beckett ​ ​ (m. 1987)​
Awards	Frederick Douglass Prize (2001) Bancroft Prize (2002; 2019) Lincoln Prize (2002; 2019) Pulitzer Prize (2019)
Academic background
Alma mater	Michigan State University University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Virginia
Thesis	Keeping Faith in Jubilee (1985)
Academic work
Discipline	American studies history
Sub-discipline	American history
Institutions	North Central College Harvard University Amherst College Yale University
Notable works	Race and Reunion (2001) Frederick Douglass (2018)
Website	davidwblight.com

David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Previously, Blight was a professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for 13 years. He has won several awards, including the Bancroft Prize and Frederick Douglass Prize for Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, and the Pulitzer Prize and Lincoln Prize for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. In 2021, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.^[1]