Feb
22
11:00pm
“Women On Wednesdays”: Dr. Anastasia C. Curwood - “Shirley Chisholm”
By au_wpi
In celebration of Black History Month, please join American University's Women & Politics Institute for a virtual conversation with Dr. Anastasia Curwood, author of the new book, Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics and WPI Executive Director Betsy Fischer Martin.
In Shirley Chisholm, Dr. Curwood writes the “definitive biography” of the first Black major-party presidential candidate, and first Black woman elected to Congress. Tracing Chisholm’s groundbreaking rise to political power, Curwood details the path she took to develop her Black feminism, her “multicultural, multigenerational, and cross-gender coalition building,” and the lasting impact of her life on contemporary social movements. Order the book here
ABOUT DR. ANASTASIA CURWOOD
Dr. Anastasia Curwood is an author and 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. 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.
A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Curwood earned her undergraduate degree at Bryn Mawr College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Princeton University.
ABOUT BETSY FISCHER MARTIN
Betsy Fischer Martin is an Emmy-winning journalist and former TV news executive. Currently, she is the Executive Director of the Women & Politics Institute at American University and a faculty member in the School of Public Affairs, where she teaches courses on campaigns and elections. During her earlier career in television news, she spent 23 years at NBC News serving as the longtime Executive Producer of Meet the Press with Tim Russert and as the Managing Editor of NBC News Political Programming.
A native of New Orleans, Fischer Martin did her undergraduate and graduate work at American University in Washington, DC. She is a cum laude graduate of their School of Public Affairs and earned a master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from the AU School of Communication.
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