Christina Greer is an Associate Professor of Political Science and American Studies at Fordham University (Lincoln Center Campus). She was the 2018 Fellow for the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University Silver School of Social Work.
Her primary research and teaching interests are racial and ethnic politics, American urban centers, presidential politics, and campaigns and elections. Her additional research interests also include transportation, mayors and public policy in urban centers. Her previous work has compared criminal activity and political responses in Boston and Baltimore as well as Baltimore and St. Louis.
Prof. Greer's book Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press, 2013 ) investigates the increasingly ethnically diverse black populations in the US from Africa and the Caribbean and was the recipient of the WEB du Bois Best Book Award in 2014 given by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Professor Greer is currently writing her second manuscript and conducting research on the history of all African Americans who have run for the executive office in the U.S.
She is a member of the board of BAJI (Black Alliance for Just Immigration), The Tenement Museum in NYC, the Human Services Council, Center for Community Change, the Riders Alliance of New York, and serves on the Advisory Board at Tufts University. She is also an ardent supporter of FIERCE in NYC and Project South in Atlanta, GA.
She is a frequent political commentator on several media outlets, primarily MSNBC and NY1, and is often quoted in media outlets such as the NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and the AP. She is the co-host of the New York centered podcast FAQ-NYC and is the producer and host of The Aftermath on Ozy.com and also writes a weekly column for The Amsterdam News, one of the oldest black newspapers in the U.S.
Greer received her B. A. from Tufts University and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.
Dr. Greer tweets from @Dr_CMGreer.
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Host of The Aftermath with Christina Greer
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Co-host of FAQ-NYC with Harry Siegel
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Black Politics in Transition: Immigration, Suburbanization, and Gentrification
Routledge [October 26, 2018] -
The Aftermath I: A New Day and Old Dog Whistles
OZY [January 2017] -
To Be Young, Gifted, Black, and a Woman: A Comparison of the Presidential Candidacies of Charlene Mitchell and Shirley Chisholm
Distinct Identities: Minority Women in U.S. Politics [March 2016] -
Racial and Ethnic Politics
CQ Press Guide to Urban Politics [Spring 2016] -
The International Dimensions of Everyday Black Political Participation
Journal of African American Studies [2014] -
Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream
Oxford University Press [June 2013] -
Review of Donald Kinder and Cindy Kam, Us Against Them: Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion (The University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Political Science Quarterly Vol. 125, No. 4 [Winter 2010] -
Review of Reuel Rogers, Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation: Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit (New York: Cambridge Press, 2006)
SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Vol. 9, No. 2 [April-June 2007] -
Black Ethnicity: Political Identity, Attitudes, and Participation in New York City
ISERP Quarterly Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 3 [Spring 2006]