Draft:Andrew Kahrl

Kahrl received his Bachelor of Arts in History from Kenyon College in 2001. He earned his Ph.D. in History from Indiana University in 2008.

Kahrl taught at Marquette University as an Assistant Professor of History from 2009 to 2014. He then joined the University of Virginia, where he was an Assistant Professor (2014–2017) and Associate Professor (2017–2020) before becoming a full Professor in the Departments of History and African-American and African Studies in 2020.

From 2021 to 2024, he served as Co-Director of The Repair Lab at the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia.Provided Curriculum Vitae of Andrew W. Kahrl, May 2025.

Kahrl has authored several books examining the intersection of race, property, and economic inequality:

• The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (University of Chicago Press, 2024). This book investigates the history of discriminatory property taxation against African Americans.{{cite book |url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo213447492.html |title=The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America |publisher=University of Chicago Press |accessdate=May 14, 2025}} It was a finalist for the 2025 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-02-19/los-angeles-times-book-prizes-finalists-announced |title=Los Angeles Times Book Prizes finalists announced |work=Los Angeles Times |date=February 19, 2025 |accessdate=May 14, 2025}} The book was reviewed in outlets such as Bloomberg News,{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-24/how-the-us-stole-600-billion-from-african-americans-black-tax-book-review |title=How the US Stole $600 Billion From Black Americans |last=Woodruff |first=Mandesa |date=April 24, 2024 |work=Bloomberg News |accessdate=May 14, 2025}} The Guardian,{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/22/black-tax-racial-wealth-gap-andrew-w-kahrl-book |title=Black Tax: the book revealing how US property laws built a racial wealth gap |last=Beardsley |first=Tom |date=April 22, 2024 |work=The Guardian |accessdate=May 14, 2025}} and Forbes,{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2025/03/24/is-the-predatory-property-tax-an-instrument-of-oppression/ |title=Is The 'Predatory' Property Tax An Instrument Of Oppression? |last=Thorndike |first=Joseph J. |date=March 24, 2025 |work=Forbes |accessdate=May 14, 2025}} and discussed in academic forums.{{cite web |url=https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23665 |title=Author-meets-critics: The Black Tax, by Andrew Kahrl - American Association of Geographers - Session |publisher=American Association of Geographers |date=February 18, 2025 |accessdate=May 14, 2025}} Democracy Journal called it "an ambitious and powerful book."{{cite web |url=https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/69/the-black-tax-on-property/ |title=The Black Tax on Property |last=Tankersley |first=Jim |date=Fall 2023 |work=Democracy Journal |issue=69 |accessdate=May 14, 2025}}

• Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline (Yale University Press, 2018). This work details activist Ned Coll's efforts to open private beaches in Connecticut.{{cite web |url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300226268/free-the-beaches/ |title=Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline |publisher=Yale University Press |accessdate=May 14, 2025}} It won the 2018 Connecticut Book Award for non-fiction{{cite web |url=https://ctcenterforthebook.org/winners-of-the-2018-connecticut-book-awards/ |title=Winners of the 2018 Connecticut Book Awards |publisher=Connecticut Center for the Book |accessdate=May 14, 2025}} and the 2018 Homer D. Babbidge Award. Kirkus Reviews described it as a "well-documented—and dispiriting—history."{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/andrew-w-kahrl/free-the-beaches/ |title=FREE THE BEACHES |work=Kirkus Reviews |date=February 27, 2018 |accessdate=May 14, 2025}}

• The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South (Harvard University Press, 2012; paperback retitled The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South, UNC Press, 2016). This book explores the history of African American coastal land ownership and leisure spaces.{{cite web |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674065798 |title=The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South |publisher=Harvard University Press |accessdate=May 14, 2025}} It received the 2013 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American Historians.{{cite web |url=https://www.oah.org/programs/awards/liberty-legacy-foundation-award/past-recipients/ |title=Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Winners |publisher=Organization of American Historians |accessdate=May 14, 2025}}
• Reception:** A review in the Journal of Social History termed it an "excellent work," while noting a minor point regarding the selection of case studies.{{cite journal |last=Sultana |first=Selima |date=2013 |title=The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South. Andrew W. Kahrl. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 376 pp., maps, photos, notes, bibliog., index. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0674050471) |journal=Journal of Social History |publisher=Taylor & Francis Online |volume=46 |issue=4 |pages=1110–1112 |doi=10.1080/2325548X.2013.785744 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2325548X.2013.785744}}

Kahrl also co-authored the National Park Service theme study, African American Outdoor Recreation (2022).{{cite web |url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/african-american-outdoor-recreation.htm |title=African American Outdoor Recreation Theme Study |publisher=National Park Service |accessdate=May 14, 2025}}

Kahrl has published numerous articles in academic journals, including the Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, and Journal of Urban History. His earlier work, which formed the basis of an article in the Journal of American History, received the 2007 Louis Pelzer Memorial Award from the Organization of American Historians.{{cite web |url=https://www.oah.org/programs/awards/louis-pelzer-memorial-award/past-recipients/ |title=Louis Pelzer Memorial Award Winners |publisher=Organization of American Historians |accessdate=May 14, 2025}}

He also contributes to public discussions on historical topics through op-eds and essays in publications such as The New York Times,{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/opinion/property-taxes-racism-inequality.html |title=It's Time to End the Quiet Cruelty of Property Taxes |last=Kahrl |first=Andrew W. |date=April 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |accessdate=May 14, 2025}} The Washington Post,{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/09/12/the-cost-of-coastal-capitalism/ |title=The Cost of Coastal Capitalism |last=Kahrl |first=Andrew W. |date=September 12, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post |accessdate=May 14, 2025}} The Guardian,{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/12/americas-segregated-shores-public-beaches |title=America's Segregated Shores |last=Kahrl |first=Andrew W. |date=June 12, 2018 |work=The Guardian |accessdate=May 14, 2025}} and NBC News THINK.{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/bruces-beach-20-million-sale-isnt-model-reparations-rcna64991 |title=Why the Bruce's Beach $20 million sale isn't a model for reparations |last=Kahrl |first=Andrew W. |date=January 10, 2023 |work=NBC News |accessdate=May 14, 2025}}

In addition to the recognition for his books, Kahrl has received:

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2022–2023)
• Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (2012–2015){{cite web |url=https://www.acls.org/fellow-grantees/andrew-w-kahrl-2/ |title=Andrew W. Kahrl - ACLS |publisher=American Council of Learned Societies |accessdate=May 14, 2025}}
• Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians (since 2016){{cite web |url=https://www.oah.org/distinguished-lectureship-program/lecturers/andrew-w-kahrl/ |title=Andrew W. Kahrl - OAH Distinguished Lecturer |publisher=Organization of American Historians |accessdate=May 14, 2025}}
• Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University (2008-2011)
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship (2008-2009) and Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2007-2008)

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