N. D. B. Connolly

N. D. B. Connolly
Connolly in 2021
Personal details
Born (1977-11-06) November 6, 1977 (age 46)
Alma materSt. Thomas University (B.A., 1999)
University of Chicago (M.A., 2000)
University of Michigan
ProfessionHistorian and professor

Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly (born Nov. 6, 1977) is an American historian and professor. He is the Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and co-host of the U.S. history podcast BackStory. He is also the author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida.[1] A self-professed "desegregationist," Connolly, in 2016, became the first African-American U.S. historian tenured at Johns Hopkins University, and the first African American to win either the Kenneth T. Jackson Book Award from the Urban History Association (2015) or the Bennett H. Wall Award from the Southern Historical Society (2016).[2]

  1. ^ "Nathan Connolly, Host". Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Historians Joanne Freeman and Nathan Connolly Join BackStory". Retrieved 8 May 2018.