Faculty Expert Profile
Nathan Connolly
- Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History
- Office phone
- 410-516-7983
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- ndbconnolly
Media Representatives
- Name
- Jill Rosen
- jrosen@jhu.edu
- Office phone
- 443-997-9906
- Cell phone
- 443-547-8805
- Name
- Hannah Robbins
- hlrobbins@jhu.edu
- Cell phone
- 667-232-9047
Nathan Connolly
- Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History
Expertise
Affiliations
- Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
Languages spoken
- English
Nathan Connolly's work centers on racism, capitalism, politics, cities and migration in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in particular Jim Crow and the ideas of family, property and citizenship in the United States. As co-host of the weekly history podcast BackStory, Connolly frequently offers historical perspective on current events.
Red-lining is a key topic, and the subject of his first book, "A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida" (University of Chicago Press, 2014). In the book, Connolly highlights never-before-seen conflicts between tenants, urban landlords, homeowners, politicians, and property managers over how best to profit from Native Americans, Caribbean migrants, working-class whites, and the black poor.
His new book project, "Black Capitalism: 'The Negro Problem' and the American Economy," offers a sweeping account of how black economic success shaped the way Americans and immigrants understood the possibilities offered by capitalism in the United States.
