Anastasia Curwood

Anastasia Curwood is Assistant Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. As a historian of African-American history since 1619, she specializes in the history of African-American women, gender, and sexuality, the black family, and African-American intellectual, political, and cultural history in the twentieth century.  Her first book, Stormy Weather: New Negro Marriages Between the Two World Wars (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), centers on the cultural and social contests over African-Americans' marriages in the early twentieth century. She is currently at work on a second book entitled A Catalyst for Change: The Life of Shirley Chisholm.  Professor Curwood is the recipient of several grants and honors, including a 2008-2009 Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and a Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship.