Bio
Frank Andre Guridy is the Dr. Kenneth and Kareitha Forde Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies. He is an award-winning historian whose recent research focuses on sport history, urban history, and the history of American social movements.
His most recent book, "The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play" (Basic Books, 2024), tells the story of the American stadium's role in American civic and political life and in struggles for social justice, and was reviewed in the Washington Post, the LA Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and featured on NPR's Fresh Air. His previous book, "The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics" (University of Texas Press, 2021), explored how Texas-based sports entrepreneurs and athletes from marginalized backgrounds transformed American sporting culture in the 1960s and 1970s. Guridy is also a leading scholar of the Black Freedom Movement in the United States and the Caribbean; his first book, "Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow" (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), won the Elsa Goveia Book Prize and the Wesley-Logan Book Prize. He is co-editor of "Beyond el Barrio: Everyday Life in Latino/a America" (NYU Press, 2010).
His writing and commentary on sport, society, and politics have appeared in Public Books, Columbia News, NBC News.com, and the Washington Post, and he has appeared on NPR's Fresh Air, MSNBC's Morning Joe, and other podcasts and programs. His fellowships include the Schomburg Center Scholar in Residence Fellowship and the Ray A. Billington Professorship at Occidental College and the Huntington Library. He has received the Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award (UT Austin, 2010), the Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching at Columbia (2019), and the Faculty Service Award at Columbia (2023). He is beginning a new project on the history of global solidarity campaigns from the era of fascism in the 1930s to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s. He is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study during the 2026-27 academic year.
