Kristopher Burrell

Dr. Kristopher Burrell is an Assistant Professor of History at Hostos Community College. Dr. Burrell earned his doctorate in U. S. History from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2011. His research interests include the civil rights movement in New York City and twentieth century African American intellectual history. Dr. Burrell has historical publications in the Western Journal of Black Studies in the spring 2012 issue, “Where From Here? Ideological Perspectives on the Future of the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1966,” as well as essays in online forums Public Seminar and The Gotham Center for New York City History in 2018. He has a pedagogical publication about online learning in the Hispanic Educational Technology Services Online Journal (April 2016).

Dr. Burrell has a chapter titled, “Black Women as Activist Intellectuals: Ella Baker and Mae Mallory Combat Northern Jim Crow in New York City’s Public Schools during the 1950s” that will appear in The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South (NYU Press 2019). He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled, Outsmarting Racism: New York’s Black Intellectuals and Theorizing Northern Racism, 1945-1968. He is proud to have been born and raised in Harlem, New York.