Andrew S. Curran

Andrew Curran is the author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Era of Enlightenment and, most recently, an edited edition, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr, entitled Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race

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.