Keisha N. Blain, Ph.D.

Please check out my recent article, “The Long Brutality: Black Women and the Struggle to End Police Violence,” featured in The Baffler magazine. I discuss the 1984 Eleanor Bumpurs case

FOUR HUNDRED SOULS: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 received a starred review from Kirkus! The book is now available for pre-order. It drops on February 2, 2021. A

Over the past few years, I have been working on several book projects and I am excited to share that two will be published in 2021. The first project is

CALL FOR PAPERS  Reconceptualizing the History of Black Internationalism Guest Editors: Keisha N. Blain and Quito Swan The Journal of African American History (JAAH) is planning a “special issue” on

Here’s the assigned reading list for my graduate seminar on women, gender, and Black internationalism. The seminar explores the complex dynamics of Black internationalism, focusing on the global visions; transnational

This summer, I am teaching a (two-part) summer workshop for the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC) at Yale University. The workshop on the Black

I recently published a new journal article in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Culture, Politics and Society. The article is included in an important special issue on Black Women and Police

I recently co-edited NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE BLACK INTELLECTUAL TRADITION, the first publication of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). From well-known intellectuals such as Frederick Douglass and Nella Larsen

Check out my most recent journal article on Audley ‘Queen Mother’ Moore, published in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International. It’s included in a special issue

Check out my recent interview with N.D.B. Connolly on Public Books: Keisha N. Blain has quickly become one of the most innovative and influential young historians of her generation. She serves