Bio:
Christina Greer is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University, Lincoln Center (Manhattan) campus. Her research and teaching focus on American politics, Black ethnic politics, campaigns and elections, and public opinion. She is the author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dreamand co-editor of Black Politics in Transition: Immigration, Suburbanization, and Gentrification.
Greer writes a weekly column for The Amsterdam News, one of the oldest Black newspapers in the U.S., and is a frequent political commentator on several media outlets, primarily MSNBC, WNYC, and NY1. She is the co-host of the New York centered podcast FAQ-NYC, is a political analyst at thegrio.com and host of the podcast quiz show The Blackest Questions at thegrio.com.
Greer is a member of the boards of The Tenement Museum in NYC, The Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT, and Community Change in Washington, DC, and serves on the Advisory Board at Tufts University. She received her BA in Political Science from Tufts University and her MA, MPhil, and PhD in Political Science from Columbia University.
Project:
As a Moynihan Public Scholar, Dr. Greer will work on a comprehensive history of African American electoral leadership in New York City and New York State. The confluence of racial and Black ethnic diversity, unique borough politics, and coalition building in the economic center of the nation make New York a critical arena of study. Greer argues that while Chicago is rightly understood as the nucleus for national Black politics, public servants from New York—and elected officials, in particular—serve as canaries in the coal mine for African American political development.
