Kris Burrell

Kristopher Bryan Burrell is Associate Professor of History at Hostos Community College—CUNY, in the Bronx. He earned his Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2011. Dr. Burrell researches and writes about the Black American civil rights movement in New York. He contributed a chapter on Ella Baker and Mae Mallory’s efforts to ameliorate racial inequities in the NYC public schools to The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South (New York University Press, 2019) and a chapter on the history of online learning at Hostos to Educational Technology at an Urban Community College (Palgrave McMillan, 2019). He has also published in the Western Journal of Black Studies, Public Seminar, and the Gotham Center Blog for New York City History. Dr. Burrell is currently working on a study of New York City’s civil rights movement titled Outsmarting Racism: New York’s Black Intellectuals and Theorizing Northern Racism, 1945-1968 . Dr. Burrell is also proud to have been born and raised in Harlem, and now is proud to live in the Bronx.