Rate My Professor Keith Griffler

A specialist in the history of the Black liberation struggle, Keith Griffler's academic interests span the history and political economy of Africa and its diaspora, along with the nexus of race, gender, and class in the making of the modern world. His specified fields of interest are African American and Black world history, transnationalism and modernity, and political economy. Notable publications include The Freedom Movement's Lost Legacy: Black Abolitionism since Emancipation (University Press of Kentucky, 2023) and Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley (University Press of Kentucky, 2004). Earlier work includes What Price Alliance? Black Radicals Confront White Labor, 1918-1938. Griffler co-wrote, co-produced, and co-directed the historical documentary “Wade in the Water” in 2002, which earned first place in the National Broadcasting Society’s National Professional Production category. His research has been funded by a Charles Phelps Taft Fellowship and a major grant from the Ohio Historical Society. Through his scholarship, Griffler highlights the central role of African Americans in key historical movements such as the Underground Railroad and interracial labor alliances.