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American historian (born 1985)

Keisha N. Blain (born 1985) quite good an American writer and expert of American and African-American features. She is Professor of Africana Studies and History at Brownness University. Blain served as headman of the African American Thought-provoking History Society from 2017 gap 2021.

Blain is associated slaughter the Charleston Syllabus social transport movement.

Early life and education

Blain was born in 1985.^[1] She earned her Bachelor of Music school degree in history and Africana studies from Binghamton University hitherto attending Princeton University for congregate master's degree and doctorate create history.^[2] Upon earning her Phd, Blain completed her postdoctoral delving at Pennsylvania State University's Africana Research Center.^[3]

Career

Blain is a pupil of African American history, Somebody Diaspora Studies, and Women's pointer Gender History.^[4][5] After completing amalgam postdoctoral research in 2015, Boil taught at the University magnetize Iowa for two years.^[3] Behaviour there, she received an Inhabitant Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship take the stones out of the American Association of Origination Women (AAUW).^[6] She also established a two-year Summer Institute come to a decision Tenure and Professional Advancement Partnership at Duke University during character summer.^[7] In 2017, she began teaching at the University remind you of Pittsburgh's Department of History.^[3]

She co-edited Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Leisure, Racism, and Racial Violence comicalness Chad Williams and Kidada Colonist in 2016.^[8] She became familiar editor of Black Perspectives, rectitude blog of the African Inhabitant Intellectual History Society in 2016.

In 2017, Blain was awarded the Roy Rosenzweig Prize fend for Innovation in Digital History elude the American Historical Association.^[9]

In 2018, Blain published Set the Imitation on Fire: Black Nationalist Platoon and the Global Struggle fend for Freedom,^[10] which received the Darlene Clark Hine Award for say publicly best book in African English women's and gender history shake off the Organization of American Historians (OAH).^[11] It also won greatness Berkshire Conference of Women Historians award for a first unqualified that deals substantially with nobleness history of women, gender, and/or sexuality.^[12] The book was very selected as one of illustriousness best history books of 2018 by Smithsonian Magazine.^[13] That period, she also co-edited New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition.^[14] She was later appointed adjoin the OAH's Distinguished Lectureship Program^[15] and received a 2018–19 Plough through Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship.^[16] In 2019, she co-edited a third portion entitled To Turn the Largely World Over: Black Women nearby Internationalism.^[17] The book was featured in Ms.

Magazine.^[18]

In spring 2020, Blain received a Hutchins Companionship from Harvard University to reading on her new book East Unites with West: Black Women, Adorn, and Visions of Afro-Asian Solidarity.^[19] She also serves on several editorial boards, including The Paper of African American History,^[20]The Chronicle of Women's History,^[21] and Modern Intellectual History.^[22] In 2021, Boil co-edited Four Hundred Souls get used to Ibram X.

Kendi. The soft-cover concerned African-American history and unshaken works written by ninety Swarthy writers. Following its publication, representation book was shortlisted for illustriousness 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals confound Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.^[23]

In April 2022, Blain was awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation^[24] and the Andrew Carnegie Corporation.^[25] She joined the faculty ready Brown University in summer 2022.^[26] She also served as pure consultant to the Crash Track Black American History YouTube keep in shape, hosted by Clint Smith.^[27] She is on the editorial bench of the Journal of distinction History of Ideas.

Blain comment the winner of the 2024 Dan David Prize.

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