Kerri Greenidge
Kerri K. Greenidge is an American historian and academic. Her book Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter, a biography of civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter, won the 2020 Mark Lynton History Prize.Biography
Greenidge is a lecturer in American studies at Tufts University and co-director of the African American Trail Project at Tufts' Center for the Study of Race and Democracy.
Previously Greenidge worked as a historian for the Boston African American National Historic Site, under the auspices of which she wrote and published Boston Abolitionists, a short history of the role that Black leaders in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood played in the Abolitionist Movement in the pre-Civil War era.
Greenidge's research focuses on the role that African-American literature has played in the Civil Rights Movement and particularly its more radical expressions in Boston during the Progressive Era, as well as its intersection with populism in the Democratic Party.Publications
