Greenidge is Mellon Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at
Tufts University, director of American Studies and co-director of the African American Trail Project at Tufts' Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. Previously Greenidge worked as a historian for the
Boston African American National Historic Site, under the auspices of which she wrote and published
Boston Abolitionists, a short history of the role that
Black leaders in
Boston's
Beacon Hill neighborhood played in the
Abolitionist Movement in the
pre–Civil War era. Her research focuses on the role that
African-American literature has played in the
Civil Rights Movement and particularly its more
radical expressions in Boston during the
Progressive Era, as well as its intersection with
populism in the
Democratic Party. Greenidge's 2022 book
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle award in biography. In a glowing review, the
New York Times notes that Greenidge establishes "the sisters’ contributions to abolition and women's rights were undergirded by the privileges they reaped from slavery."
Smithsonian (magazine) named the book one of the ten best history books of 2022, and it was shortlisted for the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History in the same year. == Publications ==