Andrew AldridgeGraduate Student
Andrew Aldridge is a sixth-year doctoral student in Emory’s History PhD program. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he received his B.A. in History from the College of Wooster, and his M.A. in American Studies from Rutgers University – Newark. He studies race, criminality, and popular culture in U.S. cities across the twentieth century. His research focuses on how cultural products that center race and crime shape and have been shaped by dominant understandings of black criminality, and how black folk responded to these social and political developments.
Education
B.A. College of Wooster
M.A. Rutgers University - Newark
Research Interests
Twentieth-century U.S. history
African American history
The carceral state
Cultural history
Dissertation
"Reel Perceptions: Popular Culture, Race, and the Making of Criminality in the United States"
