Andrew Curran is the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University. A writer-scholar fascinated by the eighteenth century, his writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Guardian, Newsweek, Time Magazine, The Paris Review, El País, and The Wall Street Journal.
He is also the author or editor of five books. His most recent, edited with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for Harvard University Press, is Who is Black and Why? and won the 2023 Association of American Publishers Award for the best book in European History. Curran is also the author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely (Other Press, 2019), which was translated into multiple languages and was named one of the best biographies of 2019 in several countries. His previous book is The Anatomy of Blackness.
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.
His new book, The Race Makers, is appearing with Other Press in early 2026.
