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Keisha N. Blain
Born1985 (age 38–39)
Known forCharleston Syllabus
AwardsBerkshire Conference of Women Historians award
Academic background
Education
Thesis"For the freedom of the race": Black women and the practices of nationalism, 1929-1945.(2014)
Academic work
InstitutionsBrown University
University of Pittsburgh
University of Iowa
Pennsylvania State University
Notable worksFour Hundred Souls
Websitekeishablain

Keisha N. Blain(born 1985) is an American writer and scholar of American andAfrican-American history.She is Professor of Africana Studies and History atBrown University.Blain served as president of theAfrican American Intellectual History Societyfrom 2017 to 2021. Blain is associated with theCharleston Syllabussocial media movement.

Early life and education

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Blain was born in 1985.[1]She earned herBachelor of Artsdegree in history and Africana studies fromBinghamton Universitybefore attendingPrinceton Universityfor hermaster's degreeanddoctoratein history.[2]Upon earning herPh.D.,Blain completed her postdoctoral research atPennsylvania State University's Africana Research Center.[3]

Career

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Blain is a scholar of African American history, African Diaspora Studies, and Women's and Gender History.[4][5]After completing her postdoctoral research in 2015, Blain taught at theUniversity of Iowafor two years.[3]While there, she received an American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship from theAmerican Association of University Women(AAUW).[6]She also received a two-year Summer Institute on Tenure and Professional Advancement Fellowship atDuke Universityduring the summer.[7]In 2017, began teaching at theUniversity of Pittsburgh's Department of History.[3]She co-editedCharleston Syllabus:Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violencewith Chad Williams and Kidada Williams in 2016.[8]She became senior editor ofBlack Perspectives,the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society in 2016. In 2017, Blain was awarded the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History from theAmerican Historical Association.[9]

In 2018, Blain publishedSet the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom,[10]which received theDarlene Clark Hine Awardfor the best book in African American women's and gender history from theOrganization of American Historians.[11]It also won the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians award for a first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality.[12]The book was also selected as one of the best history books of 2018 bySmithsonian Magazine.[13]That year, she also co-editedNew Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition.[14]She was later appointed to the OAH's Distinguished Lectureship Program[15]and received a 2018-19 Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship.[16]In 2019, she co-edited a third collection entitledTo Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism.[17]The book was featured inMs. Magazine.[18]

In spring 2020, Blain received a Hutchins Fellowship fromHarvard Universityto work on her new book East Unites with West: Black Women, Japan, and Visions of Afro-Asian Solidarity.[19]She also serves on variouseditorial boards,includingThe Journal of African American History,[20]The Journal of Women's History,[21]andModern Intellectual History.[22]In 2021, Blain co-editedFour Hundred SoulswithIbram X. Kendi.The book concerned African-American history and collected works written by ninety Black writers. Following its publication, the book was shortlisted for the 2022Andrew Carnegie Medals for 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 atBrown Universityin summer 2022.[26] She also served as a consultant to theCrash CourseBlack American History YouTube series, hosted byClint Smith.[27]She is on the editorial board of theJournal of the History of Ideas.

Blain is the winner of the2024Dan David Prize.

References

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  1. ^"Keisha N. Blain".viaf.org.RetrievedJune 7,2020.
  2. ^"Keisha N. Blain, Ph.D."community.chronicle.RetrievedJune 7,2020.
  3. ^abc"Keisha N. Blain, Ph.D. Who We Are".arc.la.psu.edu.RetrievedJune 8,2020.
  4. ^"Award-Winning Historian Dr. Keisha Blain to Present Third Annual Byington Lecture on the Contemporary South".Mercer News.2019-01-10.Retrieved2020-06-11.
  5. ^Bellware, Kim (2018-02-12)."The Scholar Helping America Grapple with Its Ugly History".Vice.Retrieved2020-06-11.
  6. ^"History Prof Keisha Blain awarded Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship from AAUW".clas.uiowa.edu.April 28, 2016.RetrievedJune 8,2020.
  7. ^"History Professor Keisha Blain selected as SITPA Fellow at Duke University".clas.uiowa.edu.April 8, 2016.RetrievedJune 8,2020.
  8. ^"Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence eds. by Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain (review)".Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International.6(1). State University of New York Press. 2017.RetrievedJune 8,2020.
  9. ^"American Historical Association Announces 2017 Prize Winners".historians.org.American Historical Association.Retrieved2020-06-11.
  10. ^Robertson, Darryl (March 1, 2018)."V Books: Prof. Keisha N. Blain Shows How Black Women 'Set the World on Fire'".vibe.RetrievedJune 8,2020.
  11. ^"Keisha N. Blain Awarded Best Book in African American Women's and Gender History".pittwire.pitt.edu.April 30, 2019.RetrievedJune 8,2020.
  12. ^"Berkshire Conference of Women Historians".jbhe.May 31, 2019.RetrievedJune 8,2020.
  13. ^Serratore, Angela."The Best History Books of 2018".Smithsonian Magazine.Retrieved2020-06-11.
  14. ^Evans, Stephanie Y. (December 2020). "Rev. of Keisha N. Blain, Christopher Cameron, and Ashley D. Farmer, eds,New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition".American Historical Review.125(5): 1803–1806.doi:10.1093/ahr/rhz1124.
  15. ^"Historian Keisha N. Blain Appointed to Distinguished Lecturer Program".pittwire.pitt.edu.May 25, 2018.RetrievedJune 8,2020.
  16. ^"Keisha N. Blain Receives Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship".pittwire.pitt.edu.April 18, 2018.RetrievedJune 8,2020.
  17. ^Gill, Keisha N. Blain and Tiffany M."UI Press | Edited by Keisha N. Blain and Tiffany M. Gill | To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism".press.uillinois.edu.Retrieved2020-06-11.
  18. ^"2019 Reads for the Rest of Us - Ms. Magazine".msmagazine.13 February 2019.Retrieved2020-06-11.
  19. ^"Keisha N. Blain".hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu.RetrievedJune 8,2020.
  20. ^"Journal of African American History Editorial Board".journals.uchicago.edu.Journal of African American History.RetrievedJune 8,2020.
  21. ^"Editorial Board | JHU Press".press.jhu.edu.Retrieved2020-06-11.
  22. ^"Editorial board".Cambridge Core.Retrieved2020-06-11.
  23. ^"2022 Winners".Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. 17 October 2021.RetrievedJuly 4,2022.
  24. ^"Pitt's Keisha N. Blain and Yona Harvey are 2022 Guggenheim Fellows".University of Pittsburgh. April 8, 2022.RetrievedJuly 4,2022.
  25. ^Ford, Celeste (April 26, 2022)."Carnegie Corporation of New York Announces the 2022 Class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows".Andrew Carnegie Corporation.RetrievedJuly 4,2022.
  26. ^Coker, Rachel (May 6, 2022)."Keisha N. Blain is making history".Binghamton University.RetrievedJuly 4,2022.
  27. ^@ClintSmithIII (30 April 2021)."Some news: I'm excited to be the host of a new @TheCrashCourse series, Black American History. We've got 50 episode..."(Tweet) – viaTwitter.
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