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“Biography as Method: Rethinking the Enlightenment and the Making of Race”

March 24, 2026, at 4pm

Humanities Quadrangle Room 136, 320 York Street

ANDREW S. CURRAN is a writer and biographer who writes on the intersection of race, science, and Enlightenment thought. His writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Guardian, Newsweek, Time Magazine, The Paris Review, El Païs, and The Wall Street Journal. He is also the author or editor of six books. His most recent is , which was published in the US by Other Press and, in the UK, by the Westbourne Press. His last book,  (edited with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), was nominated for a NAACP image award and won the for the best book in European History. He lives in Connecticut where he is the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities at .

In this talk, Andrew Curran will speak about his new book, the first biographical history of race, which begins with Louis XIV and finishes with Thomas Jefferson.”