N. D. B. Connolly

N. D. B. Connolly
Connolly in 2021
Personal details
Born	(1977-11-06) November 6, 1977 (age 46)
Alma mater	St. Thomas University (B.A., 1999) University of Chicago (M.A., 2000) University of Michigan
Profession	Historian and professor

Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly (born Nov. 6, 1977) is an American historian and professor. He is the Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and co-host of the U.S. history podcast BackStory. He is also the author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida.^[1] A self-professed "desegregationist," Connolly, in 2016, became the first African-American U.S. historian tenured at Johns Hopkins University, and the first African American to win either the Kenneth T. Jackson Book Award from the Urban History Association (2015) or the Bennett H. Wall Award from the Southern Historical Society (2016).^[2]

Career

Connolly attended

After completing his dissertation, Connolly assumed an assistant professorship in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. At Hopkins, Connolly became variously active in the Center for Africana Studies; the Program on Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (which he co-directed in 2014–2015); and the 21st Century Cities Initiative.[5] Connolly also began advising graduate students, offering graduate seminars in American history, urban history, African American biography, and historians' applications of Critical race theory. During the 2015–2016 academic year, Connolly served as visiting professor of History and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Connolly became the Herbert Baxter Adams Chair and associate professor in history at Johns Hopkins University in 2016.^[6] At that time, he also took on affiliations in the Program in Museums and Society;^[7] the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute;^[8] and the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine.^[9]

Connolly joined BackStory, produced by

• "Mapping Inequality: 'Big Data' Meets Social History in the Story of Redlining," with LaDale Winling, Robert K. Nelson, and Richard Marciano, The Routledge Handbook of Spatial History, Ian Gregory, Don, Lafreniere, Don Debats, eds., (
  ISBN 9781138860148
  )
• "How 'Black Panther' Taps into 500 Years of History," The Hollywood Reporter, Feb. 18, 2018.
• "A White Story," Dissent, Forum on Neoliberalism, Jan. 22, 2018.
• "Charlottesville Showed that Liberalism Can't Defeat White Supremacy. Only Direct Action Can," The Washington Post, August 15, 2017.
• "Black and Woke in Capitalist America: Revisiting Robert Allen's Black Awakening...for New Times' Sake," Items, March 7, 2017.
• "Trump Syllabus 2.0," with Keisha Blain, Public Books, June 28, 2016; Spanish translation, February 22, 2017.
• "A Black Power Method," Public Books, June 15, 2016.
• "How Did African Americans Discover They Were Being 'Redlined'?" Talking Points Memo, "Primary Source," August 9, 2015.
• "Notes on a Desegregated Method: Learning from Michael Katz and Others," Journal of Urban History 41, no. 4 (July 2015): 584–591.
• "The Case For Repair," Parts 1 and 2, The City in History (2014).

Works in progress

• Four Daughters: An American Story
• Black Capitalism: The "Negro Problem" and the American Economy

References

External links

• N. D. B. Connolly