Derrick P. Alridge
Email: dalridge@uga.edu

Dr. Alridge is Director and Professor in the Institute for African American Studies and Professor of Education at the University of Georgia. Alridge’s areas of scholarship include the history of African-American education, African-American intellectual history and the history of ideas, and civil rights studies. His work has been published in the Journal of African American History (formerly Journal of Negro History), the Journal of Negro Education, and the History of Education Quarterly, among others.

Dr. Alridge has completed one book, The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History (with Teachers College Press, Columbia University).  Another book in progress is The Hip-Hop Mind: An Intellectual History of the Social Consciousness of a Generation (with the University of Wisconsin Press). In addition to his publications, Alridge serves as co-director of the Footsoldier Project for Civil Rights Studies at UGA and associate editor of the Journal of African American History.