Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie

Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie is a Professor of History at Howard University, where he has taught since 2006 and served as Director of Graduate Studies since 2015. He earned his B.A. from Kingston University (UK) and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

• Previous institutions: Wesleyan University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, SUNY Binghamton, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

His research focuses on the political economy of emancipation, transnational abolitionist movements, and comparative dimensions of slave emancipation in the 19th-century Atlantic world. He authored the first scholarly study of the 1841 Creole slave ship insurrection.

Current project: Biographical study of Duse Mohamed Ali, a pioneering Pan-African print journalist.

• Awards:
  • Fulbright-Hays Fellowship
  • Yale University Gilder Lehrman Center Fellowship
  • New York Public Library Schomburg Center Fellowship
  • National Humanities Center Fellowship