Kerri K. Greenidge is an author and historian specializing in African-American history, American political history, and African-American and African diasporic literature in the post-emancipation and early modern era.

Her book Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter (Liveright 2019) is a biography of Boston Guardian editor and activist, William Monroe Trotter. Black Radical explores the history of racial thought and African American political radicalism in New England at the turn of the century.