ANASTASIA CURWOOD
Anastasia Curwood is Professor and Chair of History and Director of the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies at the University of Kentucky. She earned an A.B. from Bryn Mawr College and an M.A. and Ph.D., both in History, from Princeton University. She has written Stormy Weather: Middle-Class African American Marriages Between the Two World Wars (University of North Carolina Press, 2010) and Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics (forthcoming University of North Carolina Press, 2022).
Curwood is the recipient of several grants and honors, including a Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, a Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a Research Fellowship at the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University. She joined the faculty at the University of Kentucky in 2014.
Dr. Curwood grew up in Cambridge, MA and has been a competitive equestrian since childhood. In 2020, she co-founded Strides for Equality Equestrians, an organization devoted to growing equestrian sports through diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
