Stephen Tuck, Pembroke’s celebrated Professor of Modern History, joined Terry Slesinski-Wykowski ’82, at Hunter College for the third time this past April for Hunter Professor David Hodges’ class, “The Anthropology of the Civil Rights Movement”.

Stephen was among other prominent voices in the study and struggle for racial equality as guests this past semester in Professor Hodges class, including civil rights icon Ambassador Andrew Young, and Thamara Jean, Hunter College’s first Rhodes Scholar, whose senior thesis at Hunter examined the Black Lives Matter movement.

Stephen’s most recent book, “The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest” (Berkeley, 2014), inspired a lively discussion among the 45 students, faculty and guests participating in  Professor Hodges’ class on this most timely of subjects, Terry reports.

Stephen’s other recent books include (with Nicolas Barrerye, Michael Heale and Cecile Vidal) “You the People: writing American history abroad” (California, 2014), and (with Robin Kelley) “The other special relationship: race and rights in Britain and America.” (Palgrave, 2014).

Stephen’s work and reputation in Oxford takes him well beyond Pembroke’s walls.  He is also director of the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), and co-lead of an interdisciplinary network called “Race and Resistance across borders in the long twentieth century,”  He is currently writing a book on the effect of white supremacy on religious faith.  He has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard.