Alex Green’s research focuses on the history of institutionalization in the United States with a specific focus on public institutions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. He is the author of landmark legislation in 2022 that will create a disability-led state commission in Massachusetts exploring the history of institutionalization and providing a public framework for reckoning with its legacy in the state. He is currently writing a biography of Walter Elmore Fernald, a seminal figure in the history of disability and special education (Bellevue Literary Press, 2025).
From 2017–2020 Green was the co-creator of a nationally recognized project-based community-focused high school disability history curriculum at Gann Academy in Waltham, Massachusetts. In 2021–22 he led the creation of the first graduate course in disability policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is currently a visiting fellow at the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and serves on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School, where he received the 2022 Manuel C. Carballo Award for excellence in teaching. Green holds a BA from Brandeis University and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.