Carla J. DuBose-Simons earned her doctorate in American History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in February, 2013. Her dissertation entitled The ‘Silent Arrival’: The second wave of the Great Migration and its affects on black New York, 1940-1950 examines the demographic, economic, and social effects of the World War II migration of southern blacks to New York City. The dissertation maps areas of black settlement in the city, explains the process by which blacks found employment, analyzes early civil rights activism in the city, and explores the expansion of black settlement beyond the boundaries of Harlem. 

Her research interests include New York City history, African American history, and the history of community formation. She is the author of “Fighting Against Jim Crow Hiring” in The Economic Civil Rights Movement: African Americans and the Struggle for Economic Power which was published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group in 2013.  Prof. DuBose-Simons’ latest article on black settlement in the South Bronx “Movin’ on Up: African Americans in the South Bronx in the 1940s” was published in the Fall 2014 issue of the New York State Historical Association’s quarterly journal New York History.  

Dr. DuBose-Simons is an Assistant Professor of History in the Humanities Department at Westchester Community College where she teaches colonial American, 20^th Century American, and African-American history classes. She also serves as Assistant Editor of the Ethnic Studies Review, University of California Press https://online.ucpress.edu/esr

Kristopher Bryan Burrell is Associate Professor of History at Hostos Community College—CUNY, in the Bronx. He earned his Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2011. Dr. Burrell researches and writes about the Black American civil rights movement in New York. He contributed a chapter on Ella Baker and Mae Mallory’s efforts to ameliorate racial inequities in the NYC public schools to The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South (New York University Press, 2019) and a chapter on the history of online learning at Hostos to Educational Technology at an Urban Community College (Palgrave McMillan, 2019). He has also published in the Western Journal of Black Studies, Public Seminar, and the Gotham Center Blog for New York City History. He is also currently an Associate Editor for the Ethnic Studies Review, University of California Press https://online.ucpress.edu/esr. Dr. Burrell is currently working on a study of New York City’s civil rights movement titled Outsmarting Racism: New York’s Black Intellectuals and Theorizing Northern Racism, 1945-1968​. Dr. Burrell is also proud to have been born and raised in Harlem, and now is proud to live in the Bronx. He is a huge sports fan and also used to be a competitive tennis, volleyball, wrestler, and flag football player.