Keri Leigh Merritt
Keri Leigh Merritt is a historian, writer, and activist based in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] She earned her B.A. from Emory University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Her first book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, 2017)[2], won both the Bennett Wall Award from the Southern Historical Association,[3] honoring the best book in Southern economic or business history published in the previous two years, as well as the President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association.[4] Merritt is also co-editor, with Matthew Hild, of Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power.[5]
Merritt also writes historical pieces for the public and has had letters and essays published in a variety of outlets, from the New York Times[6] and CNN[7] to The Washington Post [8] and Moyers and Co.[9] Recently she released a self-narrated audiobook version of Masterless Men, starred in several seasons of The Science Channel’s most-watched show, “What on Earth?”[10], and launched her history-based podcast and YouTube Channel “Merrittocracy.”[11]
She gives speeches and talks all over North America, on topics ranging from the role of poor whites in the Civil War to the importance of US labor history, and from the possibilities of multi-racial coalition building to the need for reparations and a Third Reconstruction. She is currently working on a new Civil War documentary.[12]
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- ↑ Staples, Gracie Bonds. "Local historian on poverty and privilege". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ISSN 1539-7459. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ↑ "Keri Leigh Merritt | FifteenEightyFour | Cambridge University Press". Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ↑ "Bennett H. Wall Award". www.thesha.org. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ↑ "Social Science History". ssha.org. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ↑ "Keri Leigh Merritt | HCEO". hceconomics.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ↑ "Opinion | Let the Historians Speak". The New York Times. 2017-07-14. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ↑ Merritt, Keri Leigh (2021-03-14). "Jackson water crisis shows Nina Simone is still right about Mississippi". CNN. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ↑ "Perspective | The reason Roy Moore won in Alabama that no one is talking about". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ↑ "White Supremacy in the Age of Trump". BillMoyers.com. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ↑ "Keri Leigh Merritt - TheTVDB.com". thetvdb.com. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ↑ "Merrittocracy - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ↑ "Keri Leigh Merritt, Antibigotry Convening Fellow | Center for Antiracist Research". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
