Keisha N. Blain is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Iowa. Her research and teaching interests include black internationalism, radical politics, and global feminisms. She is currently completing her first book, which examines how black nationalist women engaged in national and global politics from the early twentieth century to the 1950s. She completed a B.A. in History and Africana Studies from Binghamton University (SUNY) and a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University.