KEIDRICK ROY

Keidrick Roy is a PhD candidate working at the intersection of American literature, intellectual history, and political philosophy. In particular, he examines slavery, abolitionism, and media history in the transatlantic world since the eighteenth century. Keidrick is committed to supporting ongoing community discussions about the history of race in America and to analyzing our present moment within its broader historical context. His public scholarship has been featured by CBS Sunday Morning, the Harvard Gazette, the Public News Service, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Review of Books, and the National Football League.  

Keidrick is also committed to the work of museum curation and documentary film production to encourage public reflection and dialogue. 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 curating an exhibition on the Nazi racial state for the Houghton Library at Harvard University, which will debut in 2022. Additionally, Keidrick is the executive producer of an upcoming documentary film on race and art in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

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.