Keisha N. Blain

Keisha N. Blain is an historian of the 20th century United States with broad interdisciplinary interests and specializations in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and Women’s and Gender Studies. She completed a BA in History and Africana Studies from Binghamton University (SUNY) and a PhD in History from Princeton University. Her research interests include black internationalism, radical politics, and global feminisms. She is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Iowa, and currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the co-editor (with Chad Williams and Kidada Williams) of Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence (University of Georgia Press, 2016). Her forthcoming book, Contesting the Global Color Line: Black Women, Nationalist Politics, and Internationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press) uncovers the crucial role women played in building black nationalist and internationalist protest movements in the United States and other parts of the African Diaspora from the early twentieth century to the 1950s.