Ph.D., Duke University, 2011

M.A., Duke University, 2007

B.A., Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2004

Max Krochmal is Professor of U.S. History, the Czech Republic Endowed Professor in Justice, and Director of the Ph.D. in Justice Studies at the University of New Orleans. He is the author of Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era (University of North Carolina Press), winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award and other prizes, and co-editor of Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas (University of Texas Press), which won the Oral History Association Book Award and was supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Grant. Krochmal’s current community-engaged research and teaching is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Previously, Krochmal served as the Chair of U.S. Studies and a Fulbright-García Robles fellow at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City (2022). He was also the founding Chair of the Department of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies and a history professor at Texas Christian University. Active in both scholarship and community organizing, Krochmal co-chaired the Fort Worth Independent School District Racial Equity Committee (2017-2021) and partnered with the district and colleagues to co-create Latinx Studies Curriculum in K-12 Schools: A Practical Guide (TCU Press). As a consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice, he was admitted as an expert witness on voting rights and provided testimony in federal court (Petteway v. Galveston 3:22-cv-57, S.D. TX). He currently serves as president of the Southern Labor Studies Association and an OAH Distinguished Lecturer. He is a native of Reno, Nevada, and majored in Community Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, before earning graduate degrees in History at Duke University.

2023-2026 / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Higher Learning Grant Program, for “Collaborative Public Humanities in Action at UNO,” University of New Orleans (co-PI).

2023 Admitted as Expert Witness on voting rights, United States federal court (Southern District of Texas), Petteway v. Galveston (3:22-CV-57)

2022 Oral History Association Book Award, for Civil Rights in Black and Brown 

2022 Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship, U.S. Studies Chair, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City 

2021- OAH Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians 

2015-19 National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, for the Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project (principal investigator) 

2017 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians, for Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Coalition in the Civil Rights Era 

2017 Non-Fiction Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco, for Blue Texas

2013-2014 Summerlee Fellowship in Texas History, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, for Blue Texas