Keisha N. Blain
Historian and Africana studies professor
Keisha N. Blain is an American historian who holds a professorship at Brown University in Africana studies and history. Her field is American and African-American history.
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Born 1985
About Keisha N. Blain
Keisha N. Blain was born in 1985 and is an American writer and scholar. She holds a professorship at Brown University in Africana studies and history. From 2017 to 2021 she led the African American Intellectual History Society as its president. She is also associated with the Charleston Syllabus social media movement. Blain has been a Guggenheim, Carnegie and New America Fellow, and has written as a columnist for MSNBC. Her book Until I Am Free was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.