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Keidrick Roy is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and author of *American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism*. He works at the intersection of American history, literature, and political thought from the Revolutionary era to the present. Keidrick’s interdisciplinary scholarship appears in *Modern Intellectual History*, *New Literary History*, *English Literary History*, and *American Political Thought*. His public history writing appears in *America: The Atlas*, published by the Smithsonian Books & Thunder Bay Press. Additionally, 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, the National Football League, and HBO.

Keidrick earned his Ph.D. in American Studies from Harvard University. His dissertation, “Jefferson's Map, Douglass's Territory: The Black Reconstruction of Enlightenment in America, 1773-1865,” won Harvard's DeLancey K. Jay Prize for the best work across the University “upon any subject relating to the history or development of constitutional government and free institutions in the United States or Great Britain or any other part of the English-speaking world at any period of history.” It also won Harvard's Helen Choate Bell Prize for best dissertation on any subject in American literature.

Additionally, Keidrick has been committed to the work of museum curation and documentary film production to encourage public reflection and dialogue. At the American Writers Museum in Chicago, he is the lead curator for Dark Testament, an upcoming exhibition that puts the writings of African Americans from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement in conversation with contemporary Black writers and thinkers. He has also served as an exhibition curator for Frederick Douglass's writings and speeches. At Harvard University's Houghton Library, Keidrick curated an exhibition on the Nazi racial state, which debuted in 2022. In addition, he is the executive producer of We Are Here Too, a 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.

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Harvard University: Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

2022-07-01 to 2025-07-01 | Junior Fellow (Society of Fellows)
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Dartmouth College: Hanover, New Hampshire, US

2022-06-01 to 2025-07-01 | Visiting Scholar (Government)
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United States Air Force Academy: Colorado Springs, Colorado, US

2015-01 to 2017-07 | Instructor (English and Fine Arts)
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United States Air Force: Various, US

2009 to 2017
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Education and qualifications (3)

Harvard University: Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

2017 to 2022 | Ph.D. (American Studies)
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University of Arizona: Tucson, Arizona, US

2010 | M.A. (English)
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United States Air Force Academy: Colorado Springs, Colorado, US

2009 | B.S. (English and Fine Arts)
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Works (5)

American Dark Age

2024 | Book
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Racial Feudalism

Modern Intellectual History
2024-06 | Journal article
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The Fugitive Covenant: Reconstructing the Social Contract this Side of Paradise

2023 | Journal article
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The Other Souls of Black Folk: George Washington Woodbey and the Spirit of Socialism

American Political Thought
2023 | Journal article
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Well-Wrought Black Thought: Speculative Realism and the Specter of Race

2022 | Journal article
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