Education
Born in North Carolina, Sellers earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1945 (graduation delayed by military service until 1947), and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1950.
Born in North Carolina, Sellers earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1945 (graduation delayed by military service until 1947), and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1950.
In 1950-1951 Sellers was an assistant professor in the history department of the University of Maryland, followed in 1951-1958 by Princeton University. In 1958 he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, getting promoted to full professor In 1960-1961 he was honored by the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
In 1964 he was a visiting professor at El Colegio de Mexico.
In 1970-1971 he was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. Sellers was arrested in the Jackson, Mississippi airport on 21 July 1961, as a part of the Freedom Rides (profiled in Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders).
Sellers was a member of the Southern Historical Association.
