Jeffrey C. Stewart (USA) is an independent curator and professor of Black Studies and Chair of the Department of Black Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. He received his PH.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1979.  He has taught at Yale, Tufts, UCLA, Scripps, Howard, Harvard, and George Mason University. Jeffrey has developed important research in issues of race and culture in art, history, literature and music. He has developed strong contributions to studies in Harlem Renaissance, black criticality and social movements from slavery till 1960’s, and on the work of Howard University philosopher and thinker Alain Locke. Jeffrey is currently involved in establishing the field of Transatlantic studies in collaboration with Frank Mehring at the Universitat zu Berlin, Patricia Hills at Boston University, and Caroline Goeser at the Cleveland Museum of Art--as a platform on which to examine human and cultural exchanges between Europe and the Americas. 

Jeffre C. Stewart will edit the upcoming journal for our work group (to be published in 2012) called THE WINTER OFFICE, Journal of Aesthetics and Human Conservation, where he will develop the publication with themes concerning the aesthetics of disaster zones, environmental racism and design, climate change, technology, and self-organization.