Eric Lott is a Professor of English and social historian. Lott received his Ph.D. in 1991 from Columbia University. He is professor of English at CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.
Lott's book about the origins, evolution, and cultural significance of blackface minstrelsy, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (1993), received the 1994 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians and the first annual Modern Language Association's "Best First Book" prize, and the 1994 Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights.
