He is currently writing a new, full biography of Frederick Douglass that will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2015. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library. During the 2006-07 academic year he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. In 2013-14 he was the William Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge University, UK, and in 2010-11, Blight was the Rogers Distinguished Fellow in 19 th century American History at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. As of June, 2004, he is Director, succeeding David Brion Davis, of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. He previously taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. Blight is Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University, joining that faculty in January, 2003.
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