N. D. B. Connolly

Dr. N. D. B. Connolly is Associate Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University, where he occupies the Herbert Baxter Adams chair and sits on the boards for the Center for Africana Studies and the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism.

Prof. Connolly’s 2014 book, A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida, received awards from the Urban History Association, the Southern Historical Association, and the Organization of American Historians.  He has also helped build digital archives as a three-year co-hosting of the US History podcast, BackStory, which enjoyed over 6 million downloads its final year and entered the Library of Congress American Archive of Public Broadcasting.  In 2015, Prof. Connolly co-founded Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America.  The go-to source for maps of government housing discrimination in the 1930s, this website now stands as part of the Library of Congress, through its Manuscript Division Web Archive.  A frequent contributor to public debates on historical and current events, Connolly’s editorials and review essays have appeared in the Washington Post, The New York Times, Dissent, Public Books, and elsewhere. 

Working Group Affiliation:

Director of Black Archipelago and the Crisis of Place