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United States Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian, author, and Professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University, offering insights into Black American history and women's and gender studies.
Keisha N. Blain '08 is a New York Times bestselling author with national accolades to her name and a faculty position in the Ivy League.
Keisha N. Blain is historian at Brown University. She is the author of Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights, Set the World ...
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Keisha N. Blain, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and Class of 2022 Carnegie Fellow, is an award-winning historian of the 20th century United States.
Keisha N. Blain is professor of Africana studies and history at Brown University. She is a Guggenheim, Carnegie, and New America Fellow.
Dr. Keisha N. Blain, a Guggenheim Fellow and a Class of 2022 Carnegie Fellow, is an award-winning historian and writer with broad interests in 20th century ...
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Keisha N. Blain is currently a full professor of Africana Studies and history at Brown University and an opinion columnist for MSNBC. Her writing has been featured in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Nation, Foreign Affairs, and more.
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Her next book, "Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights," will be published by W.W. Norton in September 2025.
Keisha N. Blain, born in 1985, is a distinguished historian of the 20th-century United States, focusing on African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and Women’s and Gender Studies. She completed her Ph.D. in History from Princeton University in 2014, following her Bachelor of Arts degree from Binghamton University. Her academic career began with postdoctoral research at Pennsylvania State University’s Africana Research Center. From 2015 to 2017, she taught at the University of Iowa, receiving an American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) in 2016. She also earned a two-year Summer Institute on Tenure and Professional Advancement Fellowship at Duke University during this period. In 2017, she joined the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh.
Blain’s contributions to historical scholarship include several influential books. Her 2018 book, “Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom,” received the 2018 First Book Award from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and the 2019 Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians. Her 2021 work, “Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America,” was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and was a finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2021, she co-edited “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019” with Ibram X. Kendi, which debuted at #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers’ list and was a finalist for the 2022 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
Throughout her career, Professor Blain has been recognized with significant fellowships and awards. She was named a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and a Class of 2022 Carnegie Fellow. In 2024, she became the winner of the Dan David Prize. She joined the faculty at Brown University in the summer of 2022 as a full Professor of Africana Studies and History. Her upcoming book, “Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights,” is scheduled for publication in September 2025 by W.W. Norton, offering a comprehensive history of human rights through the lens of Black women’s contributions. In 2025, she was also elected to the Society of American Historians and appointed editor-in-chief of Global Black Thought, an academic journal by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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