ANDREW CURRAN’s latest book is an edited edition, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr, entitled Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race, which has been nominated for a NAACP Image Award for the 2023 Outstanding Non-Fiction work. Curran’s writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Guardian, Newsweek, Time Magazine, The Paris Review, El Païs, and The Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of three books, most recently Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely (Other Press, 2019), which was named one of the best books of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews, The Australian, NRC, Open Letters Review, and The Irish Times. His previous book, The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Era of Enlightenment (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013), was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice and also received the 2018 Louis Marin Prize from the French Académie des sciences d’outre-mer.

Curran is a fellow in the history of medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine and a Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Académiques. He lives in Connecticut where he is the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University. Curriculum Vitae