Kevin McGruder
Antioch College
Kevin McGruder (he/him), is Associate Professor of History at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. He received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University, an M.B.A. in Real Estate Finance from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Before pursuing doctoral studies, he worked for many years in nonprofit community development, including as Program Officer with Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and Director of Real Estate Development with the Abyssinian Development Corporation (Harlem), and as Executive Director of Gay Men of African Descent (New York City). Kevin also owned two retail businesses with products celebrating Harlem (Home to Harlem, 1990-1991; Harlemade Styleshop, 2000-2008).
Kevin is co-author of The Emancipation Proclamation: Forever Free, and of Witness: Two Hundred Years of African-American Faith and Practice at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, New York, author of Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920, and of the biography, Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem, and editor of Home at Last: The Writings of AIDS Journalist LeRoy Whitfield.