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Anastasia Curwood is Professor of History and Director of the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies at the University of Kentucky. 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. Her second book is Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics, (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). She is the recipient of several grants and honors, including a Visiting Fellowship at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Race and Difference at Emory University, a Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and a Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship.
When she is not researching, writing, and teaching, Anastasia enjoys spending time with her partner, dogs, and cats on a farm outside Lexington, KY. She is also a devoted horsewoman.
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Anastasia C. Curwood 
Wow Stacy! What an impressive C.V! LOVED knowing you at P’ton, as did our dogs! Dear old Pippin is living with leukemia, but I know would still remember you x0x Di & Adrian
Impressive. Can’t Wait to read your new book about Shirley Chisholm. I remember her ’72 run for president, so looking forward to the book.