Fellow 2024/2025 Aaron Pride
Dr. Aaron Pride is a historian with a specialization in African American history and Nineteenth Century American history. He holds a Master of Arts in American history from Miami University, where he focused on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
He earned his PhD from Kent State University in December 2018, with a major focus on African American history and a secondary concentration in American intellectual history and African intellectual history.
His doctoral dissertation, titled Religious Ideology in Racial Protest, 1901-1934: The Origin of African American Neo-Abolitionist Christianity in the Religious Thought of William Monroe Trotter and in the Public Rhetoric of the Boston Guardian in the Struggle for Civil Rights in the Early Twentieth Century, reflects his deep engagement with the intersections of religion, race, and civil rights in American history.