KEIDRICK ROY
Harvard University
Keidrick Roy is a PhD candidate working at the intersection of American literature, intellectual history, and political philosophy. In particular, he examines relationships among race, slavery, abolitionism, and media history in the transatlantic world since the eighteenth century. Keidrick is committed to analyzing our present challenges within their historical context, and his public humanities scholarship has been featured by CBS Sunday Morning, the Harvard Gazette, the Public News Service, and the Christian Science Monitor.
Keidrick is also committed to the work of museums and cultural centers, which provide important spaces to facilitate community engagement with the past. He has served as an exhibition curator for the postbellum writings and speeches of Frederick Douglass at the American Writers Museum in Chicago, and he is currently completing an exhibition on the Nazi racial state for the Houghton Library at Harvard University, which will debut in 2022.
An Outstanding Academy Educator honoree as an Instructor of English at the United States Air Force Academy, an award-winning Teaching Fellow at Harvard, and a former military nuclear operations officer, Keidrick has received research support from the Ford Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Pat Tillman Foundation, and Harvard's Center for American Political Studies.
