Patrick Grey is a PhD student in the Department of History at Georgetown University. A Patrick Healy Graduate Fellow , he is particularly interested in the histories of enslaved resistance as well as fugitivity and marronage throughout the African diaspora in the Americas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Miami, FL, Patrick is a proud first-generation college graduate. Before coming to Georgetown, he studied History, Spanish, and Latin American Studies at the University of Florida (UF). His undergraduate thesis, entitled "Reconceptualizing Resistance to Social Death: Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley’s Journey Across the Atlantic World,” won the UF Dept. of History's Andrew Family Prize for Best Thesis. Most recently, in 2025, he was a Data Fellow for the Freedom on the Move project housed at Cornell University. In his free time, he likes cooking Peruvian food and writing short stories.