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McGruder<br><b>Brother:</b> Frank, Jr. (d. tonsillectomy complication)<br><b>Husband:</b> Colin Painter (m. 1965, div. 1966)<br><b>Husband:</b> Glenn R. Shafer (business professor, m. 1989)<br><p> University: <a href="/edu/470/000068266/">BA Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley (1964)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/471/000068267/">MA African History, University of California at Los Angeles (1967)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/473/000068269/">PhD American History, Harvard University (1974)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/517/000068313/">History, University of Pennsylvania (1974-80)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/907/000126529/">History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1980-88)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/549/000068345/">History, Princeton University (1988-91)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/549/000068345/">American History, Princeton University (1991-2004)</a><br> Administrator: <a href="/edu/549/000068345/">Director, African-American Studies, Princeton University (1997-2000)</a><br><p> <a href="/org/942/000165447/">American Academy of Political and Social Science</a> <br> <u>American Antiquarian Society</u> <br> <a href="/org/146/000119786/">American Council of Learned Societies</a> <br> <a href="/org/443/000048299/">American Historical Association</a> <br> <a href="/org/088/000122719/">American Studies Association</a> <br> <u>Association of Black Women Historians</u> <br> <a href="/org/105/000172586/">Bill Bradley for President</a> <br> <a href="/org/674/000051521/">MoveOn.org</a> <br> <a href="/org/684/000167183/">Obama for America</a> <br> <a href="/org/970/000354905/">Obama Victory Fund 2012</a> <br> <a href="/org/173/000119813/">Organization of American Historians</a> President (2007-08)<br> <a href="/org/512/000041389/">Phi Beta Kappa Society</a> <br> <a href="/org/029/000119669/">Social Science Research Council</a> <br> <a href="/org/456/000117105/">Society of American Historians</a> <br> <u>Southern Historical Association</u> President (2007)<br> <a href="/honors/485/000032389/">Guggenheim Fellowship</a> 1982<br><p> <b>Official Website:</b><br><a href="http://www.nellpainter.com/" target=_blank>http://www.nellpainter.com/</a><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction</i> (<tt>1976</tt>)<br><i>The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South</i> (<tt>1979</tt>)<br><i>Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919</i> (<tt>1987</tt>)<br><i>Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol</i> (<tt>1996</tt>)<br><i>Southern History Across the Color Line</i> (<tt>2002</tt>)<br><i>Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present</i> (<tt>2005</tt>)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=166517"><img src="/woman.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=166517">Nell Irvin Painter</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=166517" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>