Andrew Curran

ANDREW CURRAN's writing has appeared in the New York Review of books, The New York Times, The Guardian, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Paris Review, El Pais, Folha de Sao Paolo, and The Wall Street Journal. His most recent book is Who's Black and Why: A Hidden Chapter in the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.). He is also the author of three other books. His most recent book, Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely (Other Press, 2019), was named one of the best biographies of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews, The Australian, The Independent, NRC, and Open Letters Review, and is being translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Chinese. Curran’s previous book was The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Era of Enlightenment, which was A Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Translated into French as L’Anatomie de la noirceur, this same book also received the 2018 Louis Marin Prize from the French l’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 has also received grants and fellowships from the French Government, The Mellon Foundation, and The National Endowment for the Humanities, most recently an NEH Public Scholarship. Andrew Curran is the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University.