American Crossroads (University of California Press). A native of Tidewater, Virginia, Lewis earned an undergraduate degree in history and psychology from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, and a PhD in history from the University of Minnesota. He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008. In 2015, Lewis was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Rutgers University-Newark, an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from University of Cincinnati and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Dartmouth College; he also received an honorary Doctor of Humanities from Concordia College in 2002; Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Minnesota in 2001; and the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award from the University of Michigan in 1999. Positions currently and formerly held He is a current or past member of a number of editorial boards and boards of directors, including the Graduate Record Exam, Southern Spaces, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the past chair of the board of directors of The Council of Graduate Schools and is National Chair of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation's Responsive Ph.D. Project. Lewis's research and projects have been funded by the Rockefeller, Ford, Mellon, and National Science foundations. Awards Lewis is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1999, Lewis was a recipient of the University of Michigan's Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Clark University and Southwestern University (2017); Carnegie Mellon University (2016); the University of Cincinnati, Rutgers University-Newark and Dartmouth College (2015); and Concordia College (2002) References External links Biography of Earl Lewis of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Living people University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni University of Michigan faculty Emory University faculty African-American academics Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century African-American people